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Real clear science is an American media outfit. It's part of the same media group as Real Clear Politics and was founded in Chicago. There's nothing fringe about skepticism of the Havana syndrome story. Despite Congress dumping loads of money to support agents' health issues claimed to have been due to mysterious and unverified sonic weapons, every medical investigation of these reports has failed to offer any support for it. We lack physical evidence, we lack any sensical motive; all we have is foreign paranoia and hearsay.

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this is a funny question. Avoiding tangents, for all intents and purposes, I'm secular. Though I've only had two children with no intention of having more, I was raised Southern Baptist, the oldest of six. I love our big family. My mother was one of seven, and all her siblings have many children as well. I look back fondly on our holiday gatherings and miss them dearly. my aunts were guardian angels through so many difficult times. But as much as I want those big family gatherings and the overall dynamic, I couldn't imagine going back to Southern Baptism as a means to see them perpetuated. It would be nice if there were a natalist "movement" (for lack of better word) that was more or less secular (without being self-aggrandizing and delusional ala effective altruism).

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KDEnlive. Fantastic foss video editing software.

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It's good to know there are worse places than mine. some things are reminiscent of what I've seen, but nothing so extreme as even half of what's described.

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I'm aware of the implications of inflation and the passing of time. Let me be more direct. The "correspondence" between federal deficits and inflation Walter implied existed was almost certainly pulled from his cushions. A deficit that _purchases_ an increase in the money supply certainly _can_ lead to inflation, among other deficit sources in varying degrees. But the implication that we pay for deficits specifically with inflation is a gross oversimplification, all in service of being pithy.

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Setting aside your "self-evident" implication that goods and services across the board rise and fall with fluctuations in money supply...

Is running a federal deficit and an increase in the money supply the same thing? Because my contention was with what Walter right actually said.

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Sounds like you're leaning on the arm of that chair a bit heavily. Care to elaborate?

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is it? I've had fi for years and never noticed. I also don't watch much yt so it's not something I'm apt to notice I suppose.

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Never succumb to the temptation of adding `/s`

Those who depend on it to see sarcasm need to either lighten up or read more novels. Was clearly sarcastic; you're not crazy.

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Exactly. I was more focused on visualizing accurate physics about the object. In that sense it was "vivid". Color simply didn't factor in since it wasn't in the prompt. I can, at this moment visualize complex scenes with color without much issue. Especially after looking up aphantasia more closely, I'm highly skeptical of this test. With that said, I do think I tend to think _without_ color for practical purposes--most of the time I'm just interested in the kinetics of things I'm working through. Otherwise I'm very apt to feel like things have colors about them (my daughter, for instance, has a burnt orange personality; "cosmic" is a yellow word; serene is blue; 118 is red)--so it's not simply having a propensity for not thinking or, more importantly, _feeling_ in color.

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For locking to a particular domain I had always added `site: example.com` to the query, rather than adding domain to a double quote statement.

I have used double quotes to limit to a particular _phrase_ as recently as last week. I'm not privy to the improvements you mention, do you have a link?

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