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Thetexashammer

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  1. You're turning science on its head. This is very precisely wrong. You are saying that an hypothesis is not evaluated on its predictions. To the contrary, science is the study of the natural world. Science is only valuable insofar as it makes valuable predictions. An hypothesis which makes inaccurate prediction is discarded. It is an invalid hypothesis. So, to take one example, when the AGW model predicts that tropospheric temperatures will increase, and they don't, that is an invalid predictions. They have made one invalid prediction after another after another ad infinitum. At what point do you stop believing them? How many lies do you have to be told? Most people already gave up. And that's not on me, that's on the people who started this whole thing. They failed to persuade. They don't have the evidence, and they never had it.
  2. The seas have been rising for 1000's of years. To date, there is no eveidence CO2 has cause even the slightest increase in rate of sea level rise. Whatever is going on the the environment, there has been no connection between increased strength of hurricanes, drought, or other climate related events. https://co2coalition.org/2018/09/19/no-global-warming-isnt-causing-worse-hurricanes/ I'm sorry but your post is simply evidence of how easy it is to manipulate people when the you have an agenda. Get educated on the subject, don't consume news reports and think you know anything.
  3. Toll roads most often are self supported. And even our highways are paid for by special federal and state taxes on gasoline. These taxes serve as user fees and are analogous to ticket prices. Shockingly, the price to maintain a piece of concrete is far less than a high speed rail. If it doesn't make sense to connect 27 million people who live in LA and the Bay Area, it doesn't make sense to connect the 14 million who live in Houston and Dallas.
  4. I'm proud of my farts. Fuck off with that shit.
  5. But you don't know why the last ice age happened. You don't know why it ended. You don't know why the medieval warm period happened. You don't know why there was a temperature spike in the 1930's. You don't have a single example of the CO2 levels driving global temperature, nor of any time in the past where there was a runaway increase in temperature due to an increase in CO2. AGW is an hyposthesis entirely lacking in evidentiary support. What you do have is a statistically flawed model with questionable data inputs whose predictions (a) have a 95% confidence interval that do not include the current temperature, and (b) predict, with a 95% confidence level, in 50 years that temperature will stay exactly the same as it is today.
  6. I know it's not cool to dox people, but I was able to identify jimmyjames in real life.
  7. The failing NY Times had to admit the alleged "victim" of seeing a penis doesn't even remember the event. Let's just ignore for the moment the eternal damnation that goes along with actually seeing a human penis. Was the penis even seen? https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/16/new-york-times-admits-alleged-victim-kavanaugh-incident-no-recollection/ #fakenews
  8. Spot crude is up $6 or ~10%. For the record, we are already involved on the Saudi side of things. It's not unlike allying with Saddam back in the 80's.
  9. I was under the impression we don't play defense.
  10. In all seriousness, I don't think LSU is as good as they looked against us. Our offense and their defense are both legit. Their opposites are not. Burrow played out of his mind, but he's not a completely different person. He'll mean revert over the course of the season. Their offense looked world class. I don't believe it. Our defense wasn't good. Talented? Yes. But we covered poorly. I think we'll get better, but our secondary was ate up and Burrow ate some Scooby Snacks. Burrow just threw an obvious pick to NW State.
  11. Well OK. Lets take a look at your situation. Germany is smaller than Texas and has twice the population, which makes trains more sensible. Where Germany has ten dollar gas, we pay $2.50 for gas. So trains are MORE EXPENSIVE and cars are LESS EXPENSIVE so you, me and everyone else is like "fuck it I'm driving". We could raise gas to ten dollars a gallon, that would make trains more affordable while decreasing everyone's standard of living, great idea. Wuppertal to Frankfurt Airport is not thirty minutes. As the crow flies, it's 104 miles. You don't average 200+ miles per hour. It's 1.5 hours on the train. The train neither starts nor ends at your destination. A car drives you from where you are, to where you want to go. Basically, there's no time savings. Trains make no sense at all. Bro I'm just gonna assume you're drunk.
  12. It's ESPN. If it's terrible, they can't not do it.
  13. Indeed. I was so "triggered" by 9/11 and the deaths of 3,000 of my fellow Americans that I joined the Army. Any more 9/11 jokes you want to share with the audience?
  14. You do you, NY Times. Ilham Omar said it was "some people" who "did something". Apparently it wasn't even people, it was the airplanes. And how does 2,977 become 2,000?
  15. If you need a clarification, I was referring to Parliament. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1175767/boris-johnson-news-nigel-farage-brexit-party-general-election-John-Curtice Tony Blair says the same, even though he's a staunch remainer. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-blair-idUSKCN1VN0QW This is why they should have done the vote of no confidence earlier. The deal would have gotten the second referendum. They basically rejected the 2nd referendum, it's dead. It's a very reasonable path and they rejected it. I don't understand their motivations, but there isn't some huge push for another vote. Betting odds for a revote are like 20 to 1.
  16. I stand corrected. As I understand it, there are 650 geographic constituencies (we would call then districts) each of which elects one MP. The winner is whomever has the most votes. The result is that the combined (Tory+Brexit) advantage of 21 points likely gives them a massive overall win. The Parliament elects the PM, who is never voted on. So where the US has only one nationally elected official, the British have none.
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