Approximately 13,000 islands around the world have increased land mass over two decades, disproving claims of climate alarmists about rising sea levels

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T08:06:11+00:00

According to NOAA it is 1 foot in the last 100 and 6 inches of that have been in the last 30 years.

10-12 inches in the last 100 years for the US is not the same as a foot globally. Neither is it incompatible with a global mean rise of 8 inches over that time.

They go on to claim another foot in the next 30 years. This will not happen.

How do you know it won't happen?

They claimed that New York would already be under water.

No one claimed that.

They claimed that the Arctic ocean would be ice free by now.

One paper, looking at the huge drop in sea ice in the summer of 2007 projected that the arctic would be ice free by now.

"Hur dur global warming exists" is not a valid excuse.

"Hur dur sientis lighd" is not a valid argument.

It does not excuse their lies.

Science progresses by correcting errors. No one is lying. It's called finding things out.

It absolutely does not justify drastic and harmful government policies, including those that simply cost a lot of money.

Adaptation is more expensive than amelioration. So we should spend money to ameliorate. Because not doing so will simply cost a lot of money.

Global warming is not an existential threat, it is an inconvenience at best.

This is from the same school of thought that brought us "disproving claims of climate alarmists about rising sea levels" by misreporting a paper showing that sea levels were reducing the land area of islands, but some were expanding due to human land filling.

Sorry if I don't trust you, but the denialist industry puts out a lot of lies.

Controlling CO2 will not slow down global warming in any meaningful way.

I don't trust you any more. What's your best proof of that?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T07:43:37+00:00

Except that the it is so people have been caught lying in the past

This paper was by Yuxin Zhang,Hao Li,Dong Li,Xiyong Hou,Peng Guo & Jiawei Guo. Can you point to where they have been caught lying in the past, please.

and the it's not so people are relentlessly silenced and slandered.

Funny you should mention slander, having just implied that 5 people have been caught lying in the past, without providing any instances. But who do you claim has been silenced and slandered because they said that the sea level was not rising?

The vast majority of sea level rise happened millions of years ago.

I'm not sure what that even means. The sea level rises and falls primarily with the amount of ice sheet on the planet. What happened "millions of years ago", and how are you accounting for sea level rise to say that "the vast majority" of it happened then?

That kind of sea level rise will never happen again because the vast majority of the ice caps have already melted.

There's about 80 metres of sea level rise left in the ice caps. That would displace nearly a third of the world's population. Surely that's of some concern independent of what happened millions of years ago?

The sea level rise propaganda claims that catastrophic sea level rise will happen in the near future

Can you link me to an example of "sea level rise propaganda"? I don't have a sense of "catastrophic sea level rise" or what you mean by "near future".

But when you call out that propaganda everyone starts shifting the goal posts and claiming they did not say that.

In the current example, a study showed that of 13,000 islands nearly 1000 were shrinking and nearly 800 had grown, the growth mostly due to human land filling.

And this has been reported here as "Approximately 13,000 islands around the world have increased land mass over two decades, disproving claims of climate alarmists about rising sea levels".

Explain again which side is pushing out propaganda, because I'm not seeing your point of view.

But an inch over 100 years is not significant.

Sea level rise was ten times that thirty years ago. It has accelerated about 30% since then. Currently it's rising an inch in between 7 and 8 years.

https://sealevel.nasa.gov/faq/8/is-the-rate-of-sea-level-rise-increasing/

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T07:19:54+00:00

Well and correctly stated.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T06:04:38+00:00

She's pretty bad. Rachel Maddow is only slightly less extremely left biased as fox news is right biased, and she's only slightly more credible. Anyone with a record that bad needs to employ some fact-checkers.

She's probably doing less damage than fox by having a smaller audience though.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T05:54:20+00:00

The Haitian nation is reeling under violence and lawlessness as criminal gangs assert dominance over the island, with the impotent and corrupt government able to do little to stop them

The only way to halt the descent into violence and lawlessness, is elect a president who is facing four criminal cases, which he is dealing with by setting his mob on to justice officials and witnesses, and tried to overthrow an election with a violent insurrection. (◔_◔)

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T02:50:17+00:00

What religion were the people praying,

Various. Biased towards Christian.

and were they in the state of grace?

I don't see that that was controlled for. So there would have been both amongst the people praying.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T01:51:58+00:00

Intercessory prayer has no discernible effect.

Are there demonstrable effects of distant intercessory prayer? A meta-analytic review

Prayer and Health: Review, Meta-Analysis, and Research Agenda

If you want to help, you need to find some more tangible way.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T00:53:03+00:00

We should let Russia invade their democratic neighbours because Putin has a pee pee tape of Trump.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T00:50:38+00:00

I agree that its stupid, but it is the conclusion implied by your comment.

If you think someone showing love for their neighbour by accepting and supporting them is confusing love and sex, you it follows that you think that accepting and supporting your neighbour is sex rather than love.

It is powerfully stupid. But that's what you have brought to the discussion.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T00:47:16+00:00

What is the black cube that you claim is "at the UN"?
How is the black sun worshipped, given that you claim the cube is worshipped in the same way?
You're link between constitutions and free speech is poor reasoning. Lots of bodies have constitutions that don't assure rights of freedom of speech. For instance the Hart House Chess Club's constitution doesn't mention free speech.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T00:42:46+00:00

Do you remember the old website "let me google that for you"?

TBH, I did google for a bit. Couldn't find what you're on about.

Can you?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T00:31:21+00:00

Nah scientists realized a couple years ago that a lab leak was the most likely source.

You are mistaken about that.

Last year: It is undoubtedly a zoonotic disease as per the published data is concerned. The future of this disease depends on a detail study on the zoonotic aspects to check its fatality and resist the other pandemics to immerge.

The year before: Although stronger evidence supports the zoonotic transfer, inconclusive reports maintain the laboratory leak hypothesis alive.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-15T00:27:57+00:00

Not hateful Christians isn't a new demographic. All the gay and trans hatred in particular is relatively new.

Christ himself appears to have been all about the marginalized.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-12T06:20:33+00:00

You think that accepting and supporting your neighbour is sex?

It's not.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-12T06:09:54+00:00

There is a black cube at the U.N.

What?

It's is to be worshiped as the black sun.

How is the black sun worshiped?

The U.N assures no rights to the freedom of speech, as it has no constitution.

Having a constitution isn't what assures rights of the freedom of speech.

The United Nations calls its foundational treaty its "Charter". It serves the purpose of a constitution.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-12T06:01:23+00:00

Lab leak theory is still a fringe theory amongst scientists, because of all the genetic evidence for zoonosis.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-12T05:52:59+00:00

What?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-12T05:51:22+00:00

Did you bring any evidence or reasoning to go with your claim?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-11T05:57:44+00:00

This is why there's so much money in politics distorting the second amendment.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-11T05:50:30+00:00

Is the moon hollow, artificial, or brought to Earth by gods?

Nope.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-11T05:19:00+00:00

Yeah, not all Christians are hateful.

Only those that see christianity as a bastion for their power, not ones that see it as a conduit of love.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-11T05:02:39+00:00

Quite good effects for the pre-CGI era.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-11T01:51:55+00:00

Tim sums me up fairly well.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-11T01:46:24+00:00

Magical that he lived long enough to see his predicted particle be detected ... impossible to imagine 48 years earlier in 1964 when he predicted its existence.

49 years between his paper and the Nobel Prize. Sometimes you need a long life to be recognised as a great physicist.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-11T01:31:05+00:00

If this was an "alternate residence" how did the person know where to take it?

Hunting through a wallet hoping to find an address can be a bit hit and miss.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-11T00:53:15+00:00

I probably check my email more than once per year.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-11T00:51:19+00:00

the iconic image of Mystery Babylon

That's the statue of liberty. It's not Mystery Babylon.

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi came up with the face, loosely based on a mixture of Augusta Charlotte Bartholdi, the Roman goddess Libertas, and a peasant woman.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-11T00:40:46+00:00

Military intervention against Israel isn't on the table. Nor even supplying modern arms to Gaza.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-11T00:39:34+00:00

What have we gotten for the first $100 billion to Ukraine? A victory for “freedom” like we were promised? No. We got rampaging inflation, decreasing standard of living, and demands for another $100 billion!

The rampaging inflation is 3.5%. You're not going to see a rate cut this month, but it's not "rampaging". And it was due to over stimulus to avoid a covid recession, not giving Ukraine weapons that would have been replaced anyway.

What's the data behind the main that standard of living has dropped?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-10T23:48:29+00:00

It says that if the government invites some weird "Christian" cult to talk gibberish in a circle on a government building, they cannot exclude other religions from doing the same.

Also free speech. But this is only speech in a schizophrenic's eye.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-10T23:47:08+00:00

Jesus, please us.

These are fucking adults. Kneeling in a circle blubbing gibberish.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-10T23:43:45+00:00

For three years, China had been locked in growing conflict with America over trade and geopolitics

More than three.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-10T23:38:26+00:00

Conservatives deliver a very different message to young women. They are told to go to college, pursue their career and dreams, never settle for a less-than-perfect man, and give up nothing to become a married woman.

Do they?

There's a lot of conservatives with very traditional views on the role of women and what their dreams and career should be.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-10T01:28:02+00:00

The only estate that you should have your faith in destroyed is the fourth ... and only because of articles like this.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-10T01:27:06+00:00

It means that at least 15 federal agencies knew from the beginning of the pandemic that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology were seeking federal funding in 2018 to create a virus genetically very similar if not identical to COVID-19.

FFS, what kind of idiots believe foxnews reporting?

They're assuming that you're an idiot, you didn't take any interest in the genetic makeup of the virus, and that you didn't follow the search for the virus' origins.

Lab leak theory is still a fringe theory amongst scientists, because of all the genetic evidence for zoonosis. The claim that the genetics of CoVID-19 meets some target of research is ignorant of everything about the genetics of the virus.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-09T08:09:50+00:00

A man who cheats on his wife, on his taxes, at golf and at elections will be absolutely honorable when it comes to military secrets he stole from the Whitehouse.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-09T07:52:23+00:00

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/real-climate-science/

Did you mean https://www.realclimate.org/ ?

They suck a lot less:https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/realclimate/

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-09T07:45:46+00:00

So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
'Cause it's bugger all down here on Earth

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-09T04:36:06+00:00

The nobel peace prize is often given to people based on rhetoric rather than actions in the hope that it will strengthen their resolve.

Sometimes it fails abjectly.

Aung San Suu Kyi and Obama are examples.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-09T04:28:35+00:00

You know Jesus was a Jew, right?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-09T04:27:04+00:00

Are we still pretending that Trump is good at business?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-09T02:36:27+00:00

Saiditor

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-09T02:30:58+00:00

Real men punch bison.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-08T23:23:13+00:00

Wow.

Golly gosh.

What a long winded argument you made against your own assumptions.

No my assumptions. Against your ridiculous claim that fetal tissue must have a black market because it's possible to sell a kidney for transplantation.

Simply because I pointed out that the human body has a price that can be assigned to it.

Nice back-down. But your claim that you were making a comment irrelevant to the thread beggars belief. You were lying and you know it.

You dumb. But not as dumb as that straw man you beating up.

Ad-homonem arguments don't help you.

The fact is that a first trimester embryo doesn't have "body parts" such as kidneys to sell.

Embryonic tissue it's useful to research for the stem cells, not for organs.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-08T05:38:19+00:00

A Second Time is Not A coincidence

Isn't that what a coincidence is?

"Co-" meaning "with, together, jointly", and "incidence" meaning "an occurrence".

So if you don't have at least a second time, it's just an incidence.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-08T05:21:03+00:00

You're suggesting that embryonic tissue has kidneys that might be sold on the black market for transplantation into a human? Or into another unborn embryo?

Kidney start working as in producing urine at about 13 weeks, which is already second trimester. So you wouldn't usually get an abortion that late, even in California.

Furthermore a 13 week old embryo is a little under 3 inches long, and the kidney is less than 5/12ths of an inch, whereas a human kidney is about 5 inches long.

So you wouldn't be able to sell it on the black market, as the surgeon will immediately spot that its nowhere near big enough to transplant into a human, as it will be about 1/12 of the length and about 1/1700 the weight of a kidney.

But you know this already, don't you?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-04T23:55:45+00:00

Of course.

Google aren't going to not monetise it. They don't pay engineers without hoping for a ROI. They're a business.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-04T23:31:56+00:00

The point is that the body parts are sold.

They are fucking not. That's what the video was edited to make it look like. That's the lie the anti-abortionists are telling.

Here's a tip, if someone is lying to you to get you to agree with them, you're not going to agree with them if they weren't deceiving you. Otherwise they would tell the truth.

Here's another. If you're calling embryonic tissue "body parts" you're not telling the truth.

To claim a 'price without profits' is both irrelevant, and assigning an arbitrary number.

Then why do you think they edited a video?

It's not irrelevant, it's the point of their lies.

You have tried to prove that body parts are not sold, by giving us evidence that body parts are sold.

I've given you evidence of the lies that you are repeating.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-04T06:46:34+00:00

to cover its costs, without any profit.

Which isn't even the fucking point. The point is that the lying cunts edited video to make it look like planned parenthood were selling fetal tissue.

Because anti abortionists are deceivers.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-04T06:14:15+00:00

The testimony was false.

Let me repeat:

The CMP's edited recordings led anti-abortion politicians to request a criminal investigation of Planned Parenthood for allegedly 'profiting' from the donation of fetal tissue. The full, unedited videos instead showed Planned Parenthood requesting a reasonable fee to cover its costs, without any profit.

False. Testimony.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-04T05:34:01+00:00

Not being criminally liable is not proof of false testimony.

No. The proof of false testimony was that the testimony was false.

Nor is your name calling welcome.

Just pointing out that you're spreading misinformation ... again ...

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-04T04:19:34+00:00

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ActuallyNot · 2024-04-04T04:18:11+00:00

Not everyone should have been able to give congressional testimony.

But if you do, and you're a lying cunt, the fact that you're a lying cunt gets recorded.

"The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) is an anti-abortion organization founded by David Daleiden in 2013. Daleiden set up a fake biomedical research company, called Biomax Procurement Services, as a cover to enable activists to pose as buyers of fetal tissue and secretly record Planned Parenthood executives during meetings. The CMP's edited recordings led anti-abortion politicians to request a criminal investigation of Planned Parenthood for allegedly 'profiting' from the donation of fetal tissue. The full, unedited videos instead showed Planned Parenthood requesting a reasonable fee to cover its costs, without any profit. A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, took no action against Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, and instead indicted Daleiden and a second CMP employee on felony charges of tampering with governmental records and attempting to purchase human organs. These charges were dropped 6 months later." -- Summary retrieved on October 7, 2019 http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Center_for_Medical_Progress

But Questionable will still link to your testimony and try to get people to believe it.

You can work out whether he's a lying cunt or a credulous idiot yourself.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-04T02:21:13+00:00

Wow. The attempts to demonise the healthcare industry are strong amongst the anti-abortionists.

I wouldn't drink their cool aid though. They're extremists and murderers.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-04T02:11:05+00:00

No. The one about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-04T01:59:21+00:00

That they've been put there by Trump despite lack of background or even skill set because they are members of the federalist society?

No it couldn't.

Trying to steal an election by sending in fake paperwork from fake electors, trying to pressure officials to falsify the vote totals or by insurrection are correctly illegal, and the prosecution of those crimes isn't due to political activism.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-04T01:58:11+00:00

Yeah, I agree with that.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-04T01:56:15+00:00

What's the whole Oscar Wilde quote about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T23:59:25+00:00

Even an expert wouldn't diagnose a mental illness from a video of a patient they haven't examined.

But that's my guess.

A problem with mental illness is that during an episode you may well be not fit to life in society. But it's not obvious what the most cost-effective way to deal with it is. You need close monitoring. It's possible that AI will soon be able to notify family or authorities that the patient needs intervention, but that the moment, everything's expensive.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T23:53:06+00:00

You think pointing out that Trump set up fake electors in seven states to steal the election is TDS?

Does TDS mean stating established facts about Trump?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T23:51:16+00:00

The man's a utter fruitloop.

That he has some support shows failings of the education system.

Nevertheless, RFK is a total space cadet.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T23:48:51+00:00

Yep.

A problem with all the activist federalist society judges that Trump appointed, despite lack of experience and ability is judgements like this. Anyone else can click the "I think that this is misinformation" button on some social media post, but not the government ... even if it has to do with government policy, and the government is the one who would know.

But, yes, that's what we're talking about.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T23:29:06+00:00

What happened to the bodyparts of the aborted baby?

What? Are they missing?

The procedure caused a miscarriage. The mother wasn't on the operating table under anaesthetic when she lost the baby. I don't imagine that there's missing parts.

I asked several different AI chat bots and none of them were allowed by their owners to even speculate.

Probably not a great tool for research.

There is a black market for them, isn't there?

I've never heard of one, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to buy human fetal tissue on the black market.

There are lots of uses for human fetal tissue in medical research, but that's not supplied by a black market.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T23:00:38+00:00

This has to be someone having some psychotic episode.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T22:46:38+00:00

The arctic sea ice extent is about 1 standard deviation below the 1981 to 2010 average, and below 2012, which was only 12 years ago.

So the article is wrong about that.

The reality is the sea ice extent is highly variable, because a cold night can freeze a lot of sea, but it's a thin layer, so cherry picking days of high extent is a common tool for climate change misinformers, such as the daily sceptic.

The sea ice volume is a more consistent way to track trends.

It certainly fluctuates a bit, but there's no mistaking the downward trend, if you look at change in sea ice volume, or at the annual mean volume.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T22:16:01+00:00

Starvation in Gaza seems to be a policy goal.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T21:22:21+00:00

You support Biden and the left

Not especially. But he's not threatening democracy.

Which is important to clarify because Trump is.

you have to lie nonstop

If something I've said is a lie, let me know. I try to speak the truth, but sometimes I'm mistaken. Not as often as RFK, who's an utter nutcase. But sometimes.

You illogical mindset makes total sense now!!!

Again, if I've made any incorrect inferences, please point them out. I enjoy learning.

go tell your family you love them and you were wrong.

Again, wrong about what?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T04:01:42+00:00

Ahahahaha

Tee hee.

listen there

I'm listening.

was a ton of damage from the gangs when creating the issue

What issue is that?

and if anything happened that was bad it would be the gangs fault

If the militia shoot innocent people, most people would say that that's the militia's fault.

as they caused the whole situation so get off your high horse.

My horse is drug free.

Read a history book

I read hungry ghosts the other year. Will that do?

and find out when shit goes down

It didn't talk much about shit.

it will go down and its usually not how you think it will go.

How do I think it will go, and what are the differences between that and how it will usually go?

As of right now you are living in some sort of movie world

Which movie?

and land of talking heads

The American new wave band that formed in 1975 in New York City?

I don't think you have even been in a fist fight or have ever visited a ghetto.

What has that to do with history books?

You are talking like a smug asshole

How does a smug asshole talk?

who just doesn't realize what its like living in fear from gangs.

What's it like living in fear of gangs?

Look up the video of the little black kids selling water

Sure. I'll get right on to that.

and a gang rolling up and throwing guns in their face

That doesn't sound like a very effective use of a gun.

a fucking gun not a karen

Is a fucking gun some new kind of artificial insemination device?

calling the police on kids but a fucking gun and took their money cause ... thuggin!!!!

What? Took their money?

I suppose the appropriate response would be to lynch them then.

Death to all gangs!!!

I'm not sure that sentence parses.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T03:51:53+00:00

I have quit stalking and I actually feel really guilty about my worst stalking cases.

Yes.

People see as the guy who’s more likely to be a stalker due to how I’m seen as a socially incompetent guy trying to get the girl that doesn’t like me.

Judging from the sentence before, they appear to be correct.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T03:48:13+00:00

1) Biden has not used the federal agencies to censor political speech. He pushed social media platforms to take down false posts about the Covid-19 pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

2) Trump set up fake electors in seven states to steal the election, and organized a insurrection to halt the transfer of power, tried to push officials to find him 11,780 extra votes in Georgia, and that's the one that we know about because it was recorded.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T03:38:05+00:00

Sure a Militia isn't a lynch mob.

What are the main differences?

No innocents just gangs.

How do you ensure that?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-03T03:20:11+00:00

LoL militia isn't a lynch mob

A militia with a seek and destroy mentality has the same flaws with respect to false accusations and extrajudicial murder of innocents.

So I use "lynch mob" as a metaphor, even though they will be shooting rather than lynching their victims.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-02T22:43:10+00:00

I presume Trump sorted the stock himself.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-02T22:42:26+00:00

Disagree.

A lynch mob lack of due process and emotive environment lends itself to false accusations and extrajudicial murder of innocents.

No matter what color skin you think your peers are.

In particular medical practitioners would be vulnerable in the south for offering health care that is considered unethical in the recent views of some Christian groups.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-02T07:14:30+00:00

Good. Unless they're working seriously few hours, they won't be eligible for food stamps, which is the taxpayer subsidizing fast food methamphetamine megacorporations.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-02T07:10:13+00:00

Nope.

The legal system is slow, does a lot of swings and misses, as is vulnerable to police corruption and activist judges

But it's fairer than a lynch mob.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-02T07:04:57+00:00

Merely pointing out when they legally abolished it.

Surprisingly recently, which, as with many surprising facts, is interesting. If you're not busy being a cunt.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-02T04:35:17+00:00

Nice message.

What's the joke?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-02T04:29:45+00:00

we are to co-create Paradise on Earth.

How's it going so far?

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-02T03:44:12+00:00

Yeah. God doesn't drive an SUV. He more into omnipresence instead of travel.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-02T01:20:46+00:00

He was assessed a $65,000 bond and released later the same morning of his arrest.

He faces three felony counts of armed burglary, aggravated battery and aggravated assault. He entered a not guilty plea. His pre-trial hearing is at the Pinellas County Justice Center on May 3 (this year) at 8:30 a.m.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-02T01:02:19+00:00

Americans you abolished slavery in 1865

Some states did.

Mississippi managed to wait until 2013, the middle of the term of the first black president.

Possibly an oversight.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-02T00:54:59+00:00

We've pretty much identified the cause as human rather than divine combustion of fossil fuels.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-02T00:16:10+00:00

International Transgender Day of Visibility (often referred to as TDOV or Trans Day of Visibility) is an annual event occurring every March 31 since 2009.

The event was created by transgender activist Rachel Crandall Crocker of Michigan in 2009, not Joe Biden.

It rarely lines up with Easter Sunday.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-01T23:43:35+00:00

The data is coming from the same source, so it's not independent.

No. The FBI's UCR system gets their data from law enforcement organizations.

The CDC's NVDRS links data from coroner/medical examiners, toxicology, and death certificates.

If you did, you would know that 2022 had a huge drop in reporting due to the FBI reducing the number of different systems that local LE could use to upload data to them.

You realize that 2023 isn't 2022, right?

And I note that that your information is out of date.

Second, the FBI decided to accept information in the old reporting format where necessary. As a result, the 2022 annual report now includes data from more than 85 percent of agencies (70.4 percent using the new system and 12.9 percent using the old system), covering 93.5 percent of the population.

but even if it is legit, much of that fall is probably return to the mean following the 2020 spike.

No, that would have happened in 2021. A 13% reduction from 2022 to 2023 would only be regression to the mean if there was a spike in 2022.

a long history of fudging their numbers.

So long as the history is long, the estimate of the trend is still good.

everyone acknowledges that police shootings are under-reported.

So long is they're consistently under-reported, the FBI statistics are still good for estimating the trend.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-01T23:38:44+00:00

If your whataboutism wasn't claiming that what he wrote was the point

it wasn't.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-01T23:37:24+00:00

If the code base is open source, they're losing customers and are losing money, it is difficult to understand the high valuing of the company.

ActuallyNot · 2024-04-01T23:34:40+00:00

An anecdote is not data.

ActuallyNot · 2024-03-30T21:57:24+00:00

If your point wasn't claiming that what i wrote was whataboutism, your response "whataboutism what now?" is inadequate to make your point.

So you want to try again to see if you can even state what your point is?

ActuallyNot · 2024-03-30T21:41:25+00:00

They did not come using slaves, that makes no sense at all.

Agreed. It makes no sense at all.

It's also not what I said.

I said they came from their own countries.

And i said slave labor from non whites was used to build infrastructure.

ActuallyNot · 2024-03-30T21:37:33+00:00

You're claiming that the recent drop on homicides may be due to a massive drop in reporting to the FBI.

Reporting to the CDC is independent of that, so it would add to the confidence in the data if it also shows the decrease.

Specifically, no, but the FBI stats are not high quality and shouldn't be taken as gospel.

The 13% decease is likely due to a drop in homicides of about that though.

There are just under 18,000 independent law enforcement agencies across the USA. That's not 18,000 offices or branches, that's 18,000 independent agencies with their own chain of command, their own administration standards, their own computer systems, their own decision makers, and every single one of them can decide for themselves whether or not to submit crime stats to the FBI or CDC, and if so, how much effort they are willing to put in to ensure the stats are even half-way true.

Which would be approximately the same one year to the next. And there's nothing to suggest that of our did change there would be a bias towards less reporting of homicides in 2023.

ActuallyNot · 2024-03-29T09:17:21+00:00

White people built the US.

They came from their own countries and, using black slaves, built some infrastructure.

There was wild land with a few primitive tribes living on it.

Who were in their own country.

ActuallyNot · 2024-03-29T02:24:18+00:00

I don't get the red hair and overalls guy.

He's talking about whites in their own country, but he's standing between USA flags.

Is the point that he doesn't know where whites come from?

Or is he saying that once you're a majority that's your own country so the concept of "a minority in their own countries" is an oxymoron?

ActuallyNot · 2024-03-29T01:27:42+00:00

You clearly didn't understand what I said.

Did you say that "with Bidenomics everything is 2X 3X cost", and "homicides are down because of the price of bullet"?

If you are really centris you'd drop the black and white thinking and use shades of gray instead

What aspect of my thinking is black and white? What would gray be in that case?

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