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'Israel' violates ceasefire, shells border towns in south Lebanon
  • Israel, if you can't honor your promises and agreements, you can expect that no one will ever take you seriously as an ally again. You've demonstrated time and time again that you are incapable of being trusted.

  • Claims in 'Duty to Warn' Letter to Harris Alleging Compromised Election Are Misleading, But Still Alarming
  • Whew. I did, in fact, read it.

    There was no need to be rude in your post about it.

    Turns out the numbers are still being updated. They've gone up about since you posted (and funny enough, Trump no longer has above 50% of the vote - i.e. the mandate of the people). I'll admit that I was getting my information from Stephen Spoonamoore, and that the data does not match up with the current results. I went and pulled the numbers as well and it looks like it's even lower than what you found based on comparison to Senate data. However, I'm not a security specialist, nor am I a data analyst. I was deferring to people that have more experience than me.

    That said, I'm not saying that it was rigged - I am however saying that a bunch of weird shit happened, and I'm hoping that someone looks into deeper JUST TO BE SURE. It looks like Pennsylvania is actually doing a recount - if they come back with nothing, I'll shut up about it. And yes, it's entirely skepticism, I'm not in denial about Trump winning.

    I don't get why there's such a hesitation about being sure of something. It's like smelling smoke, and being told to stfu about there being a fire...that everything is working as intended. Like, do I have "evidence" of there being a fire? No, but....why tf wouldn't we just establish that nothing is on fire, just to be on the safe side.

    I 100% agree that none of the things suggested are "evidence," but without some sort of investigation, no one will ever actually be able to get any evidence.

    If you actually wind up responding, try not to strawman me this time as some sort of election denier, "do your own research" kook. I didn't do that to you, did I?

  • Claims in 'Duty to Warn' Letter to Harris Alleging Compromised Election Are Misleading, But Still Alarming
  • Within every election, there is a certain number of bullet ballots to be expected. The norm falls around 1-2% or so, with an expected margin of error. Every swing state (and ONLY swing states). Hit around 5-12%. The percent of bullet ballots has drastically gone down. I think the percent was so hi due to early counts in the week after the election.

    There were 57 bomb threats that targeted ballot counting stations. All in swing states.

    In pretty much every swing states, Trump won the Presidency, but Democrats won pretty much every other down ballot race?

    The polls were pretty much correct for the swing states..... except for the Presidency?

    There's coincidences and then there's fucking Looney Toons levels of improbability.

    I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but considering all that, you don't think a single investigation should occur?

  • Israel archaeologist killed in southern Lebanon, along with soldier, planned to falsify history: Official
  • "Settler" = Fucking thieves.

    Israel needs to be stopped. They are looking for "excuses" to bomb and raid others. Makes you question whether or not they "let" HAMAS raid them just so that they had an excuse to absolutely genocide the Palestinian people.

  • flouride
  • Mate, your entire second paragraph is completely false. Like, you need to just read this: https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/health-info/fluoride/the-story-of-fluoridation

    It's considered by the CDC as one of the greatest Public Health Achievements of the last Century. There have been dozens, if not hundreds of studies about fluoride affects in the water supply.

  • Cyber-Security Experts Warn Election Was Hacked
  • I get it. I've been watching it on /r/somethingiswrong2024 and /r/verify2024 so I've been able to see other people's data. Stephen Spoonamoore is a data security guy that's been leading the charge. I would trust most if his information far more than anything you see on the subreddits (already until it's verified).

  • Cyber-Security Experts Warn Election Was Hacked
  • You can see them yourself when you aggregate state data and count votes for president vs downballot candidates. The norm is like <1% with a margin of error based on historical data. This is the case for literally every other state except the swing states. The swing states are seeing anywhere from 5-12% bullet ballots. It's so far outside of the norm that it's bordering on the improbable.

  • Computer Sec. Experts Ask Harris to Seek Hand-Counts After Vote System Breaches: 'BradCast' 11/14/24
  • It's wildly worse than you think. The number of bullet ballots in swing states is around 5-12% of the total vote counts. It's a statistical anomaly that ONLY exists in the swing states. Other things to consider:

    • There were bomb threats in only swing states.
    • There were a number of counting stations that are reporting issues with their tabulation software, again, significantly happening in swing states.
    • Polls performed prior to election accurately predicted of pretty much every downballot race, but for some reason are wildly inaccurate for predictong the President in only swing states?

    There's odd, and then there's statistical improbability. We're boarding on fucking bizarre, and it's shocking that people aren't making a bigger deal than this.

  • Does anyone else not care about masculinity or "maleness"?
  • For starters, I don't think anybody has gone out of their way to seek out what "masculinity" is. The issue is that social media platforms such as X, and Tiktok have a pervasive amount of social media content and influencers that are pushing the idea of what it means to be a man in this changing world. It just so happens that this content seems to align with a Christian patriarchy. The content is subtle, but pushed in many different ways. For example, look how prevalent the idea of the trad wife is becoming, and the social media influencers that are pushing what's commonly known as "cottage-core" lifestyles. They are trying to develop and push the ideals that are common with these Christian lifestyles, and I think that people buy into it just due to the amount of content that they are exposed to. Essentially, our younger generation is being brainwashed.

    It's understandable to say that you don't understand it or get why people care, but don't you remember how uncertain being 16-20 was? These people are being fed the wrong ideas when they are at their most vulnerable and are latching onto anything that makes sense.... unfortunately, there isn't really content that argues the opposite, at least not that I'm aware of.

  • [Question] Anyone here watching second season of "Arcane"?
  • Loved the first season. The second season feels like they leaned too hard in the art direction. I don't know...only up to episode 4, but still. Not liking it AS much as I did the first season. Too many characters, so many small details. Like, I feel a bit lost at times.

  • Data Scientist's Shocking Call for Election Recount Raises Scary Questions
  • I've been keeping up with a lot of it. The Starlink thing is likely a red herring. Spoonamoore, whose kicked this thing off, thinks that the tabulators were likely hacked before election day somehow.

    So, the bullet ballots are the oddest thing. In every single election, you'll get a super small amount of bullet ballots, like 0.3% of them. And there's typically a margin in which the likelihood of these things occur. You can tell there are bullet ballots when there's more votes for a President than the down ballot candidates (i.e. other state elections), essentially signifying that somebody went and voted for just the President and no other races. They're finding something like 7-12% bullet ballots in the swing states and ONLY the swing states, which is significant...it's a statistical anomaly.

    So...questions start to pile up. How did so many pollsters get it wrong in only the swing states? Why were there SO MANY bomb threats in only swing state ballot counting stations? Why were there SO MANY bullet ballots in only this election? Why did Democrats win nearly every other downballot race in these elections, but somehow Trump had a massive win? Why are all of these "weird things" only happening in swing states?

    For reference on the bullet votes, a graph showing the bullet ballots percents:

  • 'National divorce': Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens Trump dissenters with secession
  • It'll never happen. US Military would never willingly split itself apart, let itself get split apart, or let another nation that it's not allied with have any sort of Army on its equivalent. The 50 states are here to stay.

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    A satellite made by Boeing just fell apart in space.

    The US Space Force is tracking 20 pieces of debris from the Intelsat 33e.

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    www.theguardian.com ‘Everything is dead’: Ukraine rushes to stem ecocide after river poisoning

    Russia is suspected of deliberately leaking chemical waste into a river, with deadly consequences for wildlife

    ‘Everything is dead’: Ukraine rushes to stem ecocide after river poisoning
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    www.enr.com Project Plowshare: Nuclear Bombs as Potential Construction Tools

    During the 1950s and 60s, engineers and scientists sought ways to use nuclear weapons for major construction projects such as harbors, roads and even alternative routes for the Panama Canal.

    Project Plowshare: Nuclear Bombs as Potential Construction Tools
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    www.nytimes.com Boeing Starliner Set to Leave Space Station Without Its Crew

    The troubled spacecraft is scheduled to undock on Friday for a trip back to Earth while two NASA astronauts will stay in orbit.

    Boeing Starliner Set to Leave Space Station Without Its Crew
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    www.businessinsider.com Russia is signaling it could take out the West's internet and GPS. There's no good backup plan.

    The electronic communications and navigation systems the West depends on are vulnerable to Russian attack.

    Russia is signaling it could take out the West's internet and GPS. There's no good backup plan.
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    GD&T: When did companies start thinking that Total Runout could lack a datum?

    I've been dealing with this for months. I've received yet another drawing from a company calling "Diameters on a common axis/center to be 0.XX" TIR U.O.I. "

    Total Runout requires a Datum. Your "common axis" is not a datum and can not referenced. It's driving me mad. Like, where did everyone get this notion that it's acceptable? It'd be one thing if it was just one or two drawings, but I'm into the dozens at this point. It's getting to the point that I'm starting to question if I'm either the one in the wrong or everyone has some sort of mass psychosis.

    Am I in the wrong here?

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    British Army Vehicle Fires High Power Laser Weapon

    Scientists and engineers have successfully tested a high-powered laser weapon mounted on a British Army combat vehicle.

    According to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the Ministry of Defence (MOD), this trial marks the first instance of such a weapon being fired from a UK land vehicle.

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    Britain Unveils New Stealth Fighter Design at Farnsborough International Airshow

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    www.yahoo.com Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit

    A juror was dismissed Monday after reporting that a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 in cash at her home and offered her more money if she would vote to acquit seven people charged with stealing more than $40 million from a program meant to feed children during the pandemic. “This is completely beyo...

    Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit
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    LO-fucking-L

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    The Power of Sand Batteries

    Crosspost from the "Energy" Community. Seemed too good not to put here.

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    Help! Asian Needle Ant Invasion

    It's gotten everyone in our family and recently just got my daught 4 times yesterday. They are extremely painful and you feel waves of pain for hours. And just ONE OF THEM is capable of doing that. These bastards need to die, and I'm hoping you can help or point me in the direction of a community that can.

    Any ideas?

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    Need some advice...is the dough supposed to be this sticky?

    I tried my hand at making a starter years ago and it went poorly. I was gifted some starter earlier this week and have been bulking it up in order to bake some bread this weekend. The starter is MUCH better than any of the ones I've ever made, so Ive had high hopes all week that my sourdough will actually come out decent this time.

    I've been following this recipe, and it's been going....not well. Everything was weighed to the gram, including the starter, and "lukewarm" water was about 80ish degrees. The dough is so unbelievably sticky that I can barely scrape it off the sides of the bowl.

    Is this normal? It's been years since I've done this so I'm back to questioning everything. I'm planning to just drop the whole thing into a Dutch oven and cook it, but I understand that I'm deviating from the recipe. My Dutch oven cooks were just so much better.

    Cna anyone provide a better recipe for just a basic sourdough boule that you've had decent success with? I'd really like to continue baking bread, but I know for a fact that I'll wind up giving up again if I have too many failures (I think I baked 8 different times a few years ago, and I gave up because they were always so dense, and flat.). Really want something with a good, fluffy, stretchy crumb.

    Any advice or questions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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    VA Senate passes Bill to strip Daughters of the Confederacy and other Confederate Orgs. of their tax-exempt status.

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    Huge News: Safety Studies has shown that graphene can be used without adverse effects. Big for Nanotechnology, Biomedical, and Electrical Engineering

    www.theengineer.co.uk New research shows graphene can be developed and used safely - The Engineer

    Research has found that a specific type of graphene, which has ‘huge potential’ to tackle multiple global challenges, could be developed further without acute risk to human health.

    New research shows graphene can be developed and used safely - The Engineer
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    AI has been used for a breakthrough in batteries

    www.theengineer.co.uk Liverpool team uses AI for battery breakthrough - The Engineer

    Researchers at the University of Liverpool have used AI tools to aid the discovery of a new solid-state material that rapidly conducts lithium ions.

    Liverpool team uses AI for battery breakthrough - The Engineer
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    So who almost shit their pants when the hailstorm hit at 12:40 am? lol

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    scitechdaily.com Chilling Breakthrough: The Science Behind a Real-Life “Freeze Ray” Technology for the Air Force

    A University of Virginia professor believes he has discovered how to create a freeze-ray device, inspired by the Batman villain, Mr. Freeze. Rather than being a weapon, this device is intended to cool down electronics within spacecraft and high-altitude jets. Do you know that freeze-ray gun that

    Chilling Breakthrough: The Science Behind a Real-Life “Freeze Ray” Technology for the Air Force

    A University of Virginia professor believes he has discovered how to create a freeze-ray device, inspired by the Batman villain, Mr. Freeze. Rather than being a weapon, this device is intended to cool down electronics within spacecraft and high-altitude jets.

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    www.sciencedaily.com Little bacterium may make big impact on rare-earth processing

    A tiny, hard-working bacterium -- which weighs one-trillionth of a gram -- may soon have a large influence on processing rare earth elements in an eco-friendly way.

    Little bacterium may make big impact on rare-earth processing

    A tiny, hard-working bacterium -- which weighs one-trillionth of a gram -- may soon have a large influence on processing rare earth elements in an eco-friendly way.

    "Traditional thermochemical methods for separating lanthanides are environmentally horrible," said Buz Barstow, assistant professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell, the corresponding author. "It's difficult to refine these elements. That's why we send rare earth elements offshore -- generally to China -- to process them."

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