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    06-08-2023, 11:46 AM
    You're in pretty good form today, Tom! :dY>
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    06-08-2023, 10:13 AM
    Odds of it passing are in the powerball jackpot range, but still a good idea.
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    06-08-2023, 10:05 AM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    Maybe not. Florida is upside down. The panhandle is deep south, like rural Georgia or Alabama. The south, not so much; it's more urban and very...
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    06-08-2023, 08:48 AM
    Sorry, but I couldn't resist.
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    06-07-2023, 04:55 PM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    The US had lots of territory to conquer in North America, no need to look farther. But no one is claiming that any other country is blameless and...
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    06-07-2023, 04:43 PM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    Sorry, but it is. It may be a good thing or not, but it's not the same as the British Empire, or the Roman Empire, or even the Soviet occupation of...
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    06-07-2023, 04:39 PM
    New feeder design, so long skinny parts (1/4 dia x 20') don't flop around too much as they feed into the grinders.
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    06-07-2023, 04:12 PM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    No, it isn't. It's an old-fashioned war of conquest, like the Romans invading Gaul, or Cromwell in Ireland. Mr Putin wants to restore the power and...
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    06-07-2023, 02:20 PM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    OK, we mostly agree. But again, Nazis are irrelevant. I don't like them any better than you do, but Ukraine is not ruled by Nazis, and the Russian...
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    06-07-2023, 01:53 PM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    'Denazification' IS entirely made up, nothing more than an attempt at a plausible excuse which might reduce western opposition to the Russian...
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    06-07-2023, 12:25 PM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    There are probably some Nazis in Ukraine, but they have not much more power than Nazis in the US. 'De-Nazification' as a justification for Russia's...
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    06-07-2023, 11:25 AM
    Exactly right. It would only take 51 Senators, or 50 plus the VP to eliminate the filibuster entirely. We can debate whether it would be a good...
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    06-07-2023, 10:34 AM
    Yes. Angels don't run for office, nor work for political parties.
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    06-07-2023, 10:10 AM
    Nice!! Cradle boats have the best ratio of fun to work of any boat you can build. I've made half a dozen or so of various kinds, but never a...
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    06-07-2023, 10:07 AM
    I've never experienced it personally anywhere. And not in my neighborhood.
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    06-06-2023, 02:18 PM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    Hmm. Who started this war? Which of the parties entirely on their own volition invaded and attempted to conquer a neighboring country? Who could...
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    06-06-2023, 10:39 AM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    I often say that one shouldn't assume malice where incompetence is sufficient, but that probably doesn't apply in a war - OTOH, malevolence plus...
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    06-06-2023, 09:43 AM
    I'm not done yet, but it came out last year, so I presume it goes up to the present, or pretty close.
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    06-06-2023, 07:54 AM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Discuss in The Bilge
    Not what I was getting at, or trying. There's a lot we don't know. We can empirically measure the effects of something which we call 'dark matter'...
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    06-05-2023, 07:56 PM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Discuss in The Bilge
    Mostly writing books for a popular audience, I think. He retired from his teaching position, IIRC, just writing now.
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    06-05-2023, 06:18 PM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Discuss in The Bilge
    Nah. Dawkins may be irritatingly dogmatic sometimes on religion, but he's a genuine evolutionary biologist who has written several excellent books...
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    06-05-2023, 02:41 PM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Discuss in The Bilge
    A matter of scale. If we made a mess in our village, we could move. Now we can change the composition of the planet's atmosphere.
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    06-05-2023, 01:40 PM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Discuss in The Bilge
    This describes my theology very accurately. Y>
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    06-05-2023, 01:15 PM
    700,000 years ago (assuming that's accurate) they wouldn't have been much like us, despite the similar footprints.
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    06-05-2023, 01:10 PM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Discuss in The Bilge
    I suspect it's simpler than that. For almost our entire species' history we couldn't do much. Anything we could manage, destructive or not, was...
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    06-05-2023, 11:57 AM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Discuss in The Bilge
    Nah. Take the long view. Being self-destructive is, well, self-destructive. If a species does something that damages its habitat too much, it...
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    06-05-2023, 10:02 AM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Discuss in The Bilge
    I'll repeat myself. One good thing about empirical evidence-based methods is that mistaken ideas can be disproven - and human beings make lots of...
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    06-05-2023, 09:13 AM
    Keith Wilson replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    I would laugh, if it weren't so tragic. Mr Putin may be many things, but he's not a fool. He knows perfectly well that Ukraine is not the...
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