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Scientists Say the Laws of Physics May Be Changing
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 631 Comments • 6 Likes • 3 years ago • LOCKED
“The cosmos is stranger than we know.”
I admit I was sucked in by the title. The article seems to drift off into a metaphysical eye-roller of philosophical debate about a sentient universe. But the article does pose an interesting question, at least to me. Has physics evolved with the universe? Our understanding of physics is...
The 10 Oldest Airlines In The World
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 8 Comments • 3 Likes • 3 years ago
“Humans have been flying since the Wright Brothers took to the air in 1903.”
For those intending to (or longing to) take to the airways again, here's a bit of trivia to strike up conversations while waiting for that delayed flight. Commercial air travel really took off (yeah, I know) following World War I. Air travel was the new, exciting. chic thing to do. Today's...
Are Conservatives Regressives?
By: Nerm_L • Communications • 4 Comments • 3 years ago
“Are you proud to be a Regressive?”
The opposite of conservative, quite obviously, is liberal. But the opposite of progressive is regressive. If Liberals are Progressives then it follows that Conservatives are Regressives. Are you proud to be a Regressive? Conservatives calling Liberals 'Progressives' is kneecapping...
A Progressive Conservative Response to Abortion
By: Nerm_L • The Deplorables • 393 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 years ago
“The pro-choice argument is not enlightened thinking.”
We've all heard the pro-choice arguments. The liberal minded argue that a woman has a right to control her body and that abortion is an extension of that right. But abortion involves two lives; that of the woman and that of the unborn. Is abortion a human right - or - is the abortion argument...
'Ain't that ur job': Instacart shopper complains about person with '115 item' order in viral TikTok, sparking debate
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 13 Comments • 3 Likes • 3 years ago
“she explained that working for Instacart was not her "job," but a "side hustle."”
Anyone can be a victim, it seems. What struck me as very odd was the claim that working for Instacart isn't a job, it's a side hustle.
Another ticket, another blog
By: Nerm_L • Communications • 35 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
Well, another comment ticketed and deleted. When it pisses me off, I turn the deleted comment into a blog post. The blog may roll off the front page but persists in the Columnists section so hangs around for a while. A little 'in your face' demonstration that I won't be silenced. My deleted...
Tis the Season for Bashing Christian Celebration of Christmas
By: Nerm_L • Opinion • 909 Comments • 8 Likes • 3 years ago
“What, then, are we really celebrating this Christmas holiday?”
Time for the holiday tradition of rehashing the history of the Christmas holiday. We'll hear how Christmas is really about pagan celebration of the winter solstice, Yule celebrations, Egyptian and Roman gods, and how modern celebration of the Christmas holiday has nothing to do with theology....
Feehery: Why Democrats are now historically unpopular
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 44 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 years ago
“Democrat policies are meant to make things more difficult for the average American: Skyrocketing energy prices are a feature, not a bug, in Biden...”
The so-called conservative politics of the Obama era, led by neoliberals and libertarians, has become passé. The promises are empty, the polemics are pointless, and the political message has become blindly delusional. Neoliberalism and libertarianism are both on their death bed in the...
Is an acceptance that politics is a game feeding a weary cynicism about the whole exercise of democracy?
Via: Nerm_L • News Viners • 1 Comments • 1 Like • 3 years ago
“Cynical politicking is dispiriting and leaves ordinary people out, even when they're the best placed to reflect on what policies actually mean”
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; ... (As You Like It) Western democracy is under threat of being trivialized by political actors reading the script and playing a part. Political leaders in western democracies have stopped governing. The political imperative...
