Early polls yes. Polls just before the 2016 election showed closer to a 1/3 chance. And the final results were within the margin of error.

But, these are early polls, so, yes, don't put much stock in them, but not because polling is worthless.

May he receive the sympathy he has shown to others.

Other post discussion: https://kbin.social/m/news/t/79608

The fact that we have these low frequency listening arrays has been known publicly for a long time. More closely guarded are the analytical techniques.

It's likely that the watch team flagged the implosion as artificial in real time, but could not identify the cause until other pieces of info were aggregated. The found wreckage today likely confirmed their suspicion.

source: worked at the navy's listening post watch floor years ago.

Never was spiritual. Grew up in a high demand religion, some aspects quite cultish. Left in my 20s. All my family is still trapped in it.

Wasn't. Died two days ago. :⁠'⁠(

Writer of my favorite books. I am broke.

"How surely are the dead beyond dead. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it."

Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

To me, he and Camus illuminate the struggle of life. You make your own reason. The struggle is the reason.

Yeah, but what do I do to get that little rush of self-satisfaction from down voting a comment I disagree with? /s

In all seriousness, it may require a little more diligence from community mods to police comments which violate beehaw community standards since they won't fall to the bottom or be hidden as fast.

On hot summer nights in Brazil it was routinely 27°C plus. No AC, nary a breeze. I learned to sleep with no covers and a fan pointed directly at me.

Is crazy. Putin's behavior is not marxist or communist. He's a mob boss. A fascist dictator. He is heavy into nationalism and racism to maintain his power.

I guess Trump really doesn't want Putin to release that tape of him getting pissed on by a stripper.

Early season favorite: Season 1, Episode 19, "Duet"

Kira is a great character in DS9.

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