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Nope Al Gore stayed in the same hotel as us in Kansas City on the campaign trail in 2000. He shook my hand when he came out of the elevator surrounded by Secret Service. It was my 11th birthday and my mom took us to Worlds of Fun

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@Huskers93-97 seems to take issue with things that aren't facts being presented as facts. What's not clear however, is if the issue is with the language of 'fact' or if it's with things that have overwhelming evidence of being true being treated as if they're true. Gravity isn't a fact. Gravity is a theory. But we operate in the world and communicate and live as if gravity is a FACT. Is this something you don't like? Newtonian physics are wrong, but we still use them all the time because they're useful and they work for what we need them to. Do we take offense to people claiming that newton math is a fact? The use of 'facts' in every day life, much like the use of proof, is one of utility. Because facts and proof don't actually exist. The doctor at Stanford agrees with this, as does every scientist. You can't prove that things will always fall down when dropped. You can't prove that energy is conserved. You can't prove that stars are far away. You can't even prove that we're really here. But you can collect evidence. And you collect more and more, bigger and bigger piles, and when the piles get big enough you operate in the world in a way that you take them for granted. That's what a scientific theory is.

Part of science is facts. In fact, the concept of 'fact' only exists because of philosophy and science. Part of science is also educated guesses, but you misrepresent the nature of the scientific method in a huge way by saying that "it" isn't facts but is guesses. Science has been proven wrong a lot because it's supposed to. The difference is that it's not dogmatic (with obvious human exceptions). Religious claims have been proven wrong, but dig their feet in deeper instead of growing and changing. Science is proven wrong and uses that to continue to get closer. 'Many wonderful things in human history' includes essentially every physical luxury, tool, technology, entertainment, medicine and piece of knowledge that exists in the world today. Including this messageboard

Nothing wrong with that. As much as many of us have a message of "IT'S NOT THAT HARD you're being asked to sacrifice very little" this is uncharted territory for pretty much all of us and we've all suffered in different ways from it.

Hype is inherently misleading by nature. That's why it's hype.

The tweet isn't meant to be science the tweet is meant to be hype.

@VectorVictor already got this and this isn't an attack on you, but that's what science is and that's what makes science useful and reliable. We build models that predict results, which are falsifiable, and then the predictions either are or aren't true, which results in the models being tweaked and through time and work and peer review and expertise, they end up the best possible knowledge attainable in the realm of things like deadly pathogens.

Religion is pretty neutral in terms of the behavior and morality of mankind. A lot of good and done both in the name of and against it, people still stay pretty much the same. I know some amazing Christians and I know so many stuffy judgmental Christians when all the gay/atheist/muslim friends I had were kind and gracious. admo's post reaked of self-righteousness that they're more noble and enlightened than the rest of us pitiful souls who have tempers and anger. Which I still think it was, but also, it happens and we all do it. I've been a pompous a$$ on this board more times than could be counted.

wow @admo you're so enlightened please lead us proud simpletons into the truth

Well... only a certain part of the public.

careful knapp might be ready to accuse you of defending trump

You have to keep in mind that 36% is still higher than the percentage of the country that truly supports him. The polls are biased at least in the fact that they only report people who willingly take part in them - how many 35 and under people do you know that take part in polling? Hell sometimes it feels like I haven't answered a phone call in years re: the bold, as far as they know. Stuff like this is complicated and largely unconscious. There are very few people who explicitly in their own heads decide "I don't like women" or "I don't like black people", yet the amount of evidence of unfavorable treatment is much higher than those small slivers of the population. Not accusing you of this, just saying that Hillary being a woman and Hillary being unlikeable are different things, but in all of our heads they're weaved together like a messy matrix to some extent and it's not immediately easy to separate one from the other when you've got unconscious bias.

What does that matter?

Weird how coincidentally you're a super duper big brain smart conservative and you find no inaccuracies in specifically conservative news.

Boy do I have some news to share with you about how Trump makes money.

The police definitely seem to have a little too common a habit of escalating with weapons rather than de-escalating. There's actually a thread about that, with over 700 documented cases of bad police behavior over the last several weeks you should check it out. At least the police have trigger training.

That's because they miss the point, which is even with vague estimates of the true infection, herd immunity is not realistic or humane or realistically attainable. You said it'd take 200 days to reach 120 mil, but even that is still only half of what they're saying it would take to reach herd immunity. But even in half the time to reach half the inflection point to "solve" the problem, how many people dead?

Mark McCloskey is a pompous douchebag who probably broke the law, was 'defending' his home against zero people trying to get in to his home, definitely shouldn't own that specific gun and is lucky that his escalation didn't turn lethal as those situations too often do.

Exactly. And what's hilarious is that Trump supporters like him because he's populist. He's "for the little guy", he runs on not being a Washington bureaucrat but is looking out for you and me, the people that the government is screwing over. You know who's actually populist? The democratic socialist Bernie Sanders. His platform is entirely based on making sure that all of us, especially the most vulnerable and struggling, can still live in security and dignity and with a fair chance to succeed. Even from the Democratic Socialists of America website: These are things that Trump supporters actually support. Or at least claim to.

I've defended Trump before, in the case of misplaced or incorrect or greatly overexaggerated accusations. I mean I don't see it as defending Trump as much as I see it as countering and opposing things that aren't true, but you'd probably treat them as the same thing. You've gotten ever increasingly black and white in your thinking lately losing all nuance.

There's absolutely a shame/guilt/pride factor unique in the midwest that helps with people following along so as not to look bad. But yeah, there's a hell of a lot of space and not that many people.

This is just what happens when.... :checks notes: ah yes, the Republicans let Democrats play for a little while and then they come in and clean up the mess. https://trumpgolfcount.com/ I'm waiting on one conservative who can state the difference between socialism and democratic socialism.

you guys will honestly not believe this but did you know in other countries most of the police aren't armed and it's totally fine? and way less people die at the hands of police? oh and also even more unrealistic other countries with less guns have way less gun deaths, even when controlled for population! no it's really actually true there's statistics and everything

Let's start with our first winning season in 4 years, and then we can move on to beating Iowa and/or Wisconsin for the first time in 5+ years, and then we can see how our recruiting is going and then think about maybe winning the B1G