@mchill said
Donald Trump’s Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), the parent company behind his Truth Social network that made its Wall Street debut last week, had to be kept afloat in 2022 through a series of emergency loans provided, in part, by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny as part of a federal investigation into insider trading,

The Republican presidential contend ...[text shortened]... social-media-company-propped-up-in-2022-by-russian-american-under-criminal-investigation/ar-BB1l1jmF

I think it is highly suspicious that Trump will not reveal his sources of income, as previous presidential candidates have done. It is important for the electorate to know, to whom a candidate is beholden, before voting.

@pianoman1 said
🌓🕰️?

Depends on whose rocket lands there.

@sonhouse said
@spruce112358
Let's see. Pave Universities, put up a parking lot. No, let's see, pave parks and put up a parking lot. There must be SOMETHING in there to use as a song🙂

Say, howbout 'pave Mar-A-Lago, put up a penitentiary' ?

Naw, too hard to sing.

@very-rusty said
Are you helping Educate the Gooster? 🙂

-VR

For anyone who cares to listen:

Einstein's fundamental insight is this: the speed of light does not accumulate, unlike the speed of a bullet. For example, if a bullet exits the muzzle of a gun at 200 mph, and the gun is pointing forwards on a freight train moving at 100 mph, then the total speed of the bullet is 300 mph (minus some air friction, of course). Whereas, if you shine a torch off the front end of a freight train moving at 100 mph, the speed of the light beam is not 100 mph plus c. It is c. Just c. The speed of the freight train does not influence the speed of light. Therefore, if the train is moving at the speed of light already, a light beam shone off the front end of the train will not exceed the speed of the train itself, it'll be 'stuck', as it were, on (or in) the light source itself.

@divegeester said
You are in the black void of deep space going backwards in your car of the imagination at the speed of light and being followed by another car 100 feet away travelling at the same speed. You turn your headlights on; would you see the other car?

No. And it would not matter if the void were full of light and you did or did not turn on your headlights. You would not see it. Nothing, no photon or other form of information, from the car 100 feet away could catch up to you and impact on your sense organs. Neither could you receive a radio message transmitted from the other car.

There is an elementary Denkfehler in thinking that by turning on your headlights you see anything. You do not. What you see at terrestrial-speeds is not your headlight beams going out--what you see is your headlight beams reflected back to you from some object (fog or another car or a frightened deer in your path or whatever). It should be evident that two vehicles travelling in the same direction at c cannot send and receive back a reflection from the other vehicle travelling at the same speed.

@david-burton said
so let me get this right if you are driving your car at the speed of light and you turn your headlight on ......nothing happens ?

You can turn them on all right, but they won’t illuminate anything ahead of you that you haven’t already overtaken anyway.

@shallow-blue said
I suspect that mandolin graters are good for professional kitchens. In my own, I agree with you - although I noticed this weekend that my grater is getting dull and I need to buy a new one.

If your grater is getting dull, let her watch some Rodney Dangerfield sketches on YouTube; that oughta perk her up!

@drewnogal said
A female border collie aged 6 who’s now 10. She’d been at the dogs home for over a year as she was what they call “reactive”, thus not an easy dog to rehome. I initially walked her in the evenings to avoid contact with other dogs. She has to be sedated before any vets examination and is muzzled before she can be groomed but she’s come on in leaps and bounds, a clever dog wh ...[text shortened]... leaning new things. She’s very loving and is never more than a few feet behind me around the house.

Dogs can suffer separation or abandonment trauma, much as humans do. With love and patience, they too can learn to love and trust again.

My sister adopted an abandoned dog from a shelter; he adjusted and is devoted to her now.

@divegeester said
Family animals are so much part of us. Horrible when they pass away.

A beloved family dog, only two years old, died suddenly last night in its owners arms. He was a lovely little dog.

My condolences, Dive.

@divegeester said
The bottom line in all your waffle KellyJay, is that you believe that an invisible entity made everything happen, but you have no proof.

No Christians have proof. There isn’t any.

Grow up dude; just believe and live it yourself.

The bottom line for KJ and many other Chrtistians I might add, is: they believe that belief matters, that God is going to judge what is in their minds.

It is a bizarre dogma, that only people who have a certain set of beliefs are going to heaven and that everyone else is going to hell in a handbasket.

@kellyjay said
You have to believe that what you are doing will show you what you are looking for, if that wasn’t true would you do it?

I've tried all kinds of things without believing anything about them in advance.

@PettyTalk

I concur. Greek philosophy made Christianity exportable to Rome and gentiles generally; it would not have survived without Greek philosophy, it would have died out, as did the Essenes, Manichaeanism, Gnosticism, and probably hundreds of other sects we never heard of.

@spruce112358 said
The OP is about the value of religion/faith/belief, not about the value of science. The value of science is well-established.

Scientists like to say, "Whether human life has value is not a scientific question." Then you ask them what they do and they say, "I conduct research to preserve and extend human life."

Me: "Do you believe in your work?"
Them: "Yes, very mu ...[text shortened]... your relgion."
Them: "NO I'M NOT RELIGIOUS I HATE THE INVISIBLE SKY BEING THAT'S NOT SCIENCE"

🙂

Why this insistence that belief is religion? Belief is peculiarly Christian. Pagans and Buddhists don't care what people believe; paganism and Buddhism are religions focused on practises, not beliefs. 'But you have to believe in what you're doing to practise anything.' No, one doesn't. Buddhism is quite explicit about this: it does not matter what one believes, you can even believe Buddhism is bunk; all you have to do is practise the meditation exercises, and you'll eventually get it. Even if you don't believe meditation will get you there. 'But you still have to believe Buddhism is the right thing you should be practising.' No, you don't even have to believe that.

@the-gravedigger said
Seems to be a lot more of them around.
A woman I know told me she was a white witch.
I replied all witches say that as there is no independent body that declares if witches are white or black.
No doubt she has put a hex on me. 😆 😆

All cats look gray in moonlight.

@the-gravedigger said
Poor benighted swine.

Pity the void.