Freedom of Speech

 

I am a believer in free speech that includes both sides of the argument not just one.  Let me hear both sides so that I can make up my own mind.  I dislike someone telling me how I should think.

If I think one way and that way is later discovered to be wrong, then sobeit...  it is wrong...  and we move forward onto the next concept.

I have listened to the rhetoric of both the liberals and conservatives and have discovered that both sides are obviously biased, but it seems that the conservatives as less biased than the liberals.

Not only less biased, but they are far LESS LIKELY to pass along misinformation or disinformation aimed at discrediting the opposing side.

Unfortunately, I know many people who are absolutely confident that the misinformation that they heard is correct and it matters not what I say, I will never be able to change their minds.

I have stopped trying and just accept whatever it is that they want to believe...  and let it go at that.

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Premedicated Killing of a CEO

 

A United-Healthcare CEO was shot in the back by an assassin and a good majority of the population said the killing was justified because this CEO caused the death of numerous people by slow-walking or refusing their claims.

A bartender can be held accountable if the drunk leaving their bar is responsible for killing someone while they are driving.

Should this apply to healthcare CEOs as well?

More importantly is the question:   is the shooter who killed the CEO justified in doing so on behalf of the others who died?

The shooter stalked his victim and waited until the right time, so there is PREMEDITATION.

Now...

what if the jury is sympathetic to the plight of those who lost their lives as a result of this slow-walking or declining CEO and finds the assassin innocent:  can and should the judge OVERRIDE?

Judges can do this, but it is rare.

Also important here is what will United-Healthcare do in retaliation for the killing of their CEO?

Will this case ever be resolved fairly for either side?

Somewhat Political

 

NASA: We Were Incorrect About the Universe

For decades, scientists have been grappling with what is considered to be the most fundamental question about the cosmos: How fast is our universe expanding?

The rate of expansion influences everything from how galaxies form to how they might one day drift apart.

Determining the expansion rate of the universe, a number called the “Hubble constant,” shapes our entire understanding of the cosmos, its age, and its ultimate fate.

“Hubble tension” expansion conundrum
Unfortunately, though many brilliant minds have dedicated their lives to finding the answer to this riddle, all who have tried thus far have failed, running repeatedly into a brick wall that has come to be known as the “Hubble tension.”

Adam Riess, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has been at the forefront of this debate. “With measurement errors negated, what remains is the real and exciting possibility that we have misunderstood the universe,” Riess admitted.     READ MORE...

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil (Official Video) [4K]

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> Scientists reveal chemistry in tick saliva enabling insects to form a cement cone around their bite; the process allows them to bind to hosts for days (More)

> Engineers develop biodegradable alternative to microbeads—tiny plastic pellets that pose significant environmental and health risks—used in consumer health and beauty products (More)


Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed Friday (S&P 500 +0.3%, Dow -0.3%, Nasdaq +0.8%) after November jobs report beat expectations, unemployment rate rose slightly (More)

> Google sues to prevent the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from supervising Google Payment Corp. like a bank; CFPB says Google failed to investigate fraud in its peer-to-peer Google Pay app, meant to rival Venmo (More) | Why did Google discontinue its Google Pay app in the US? (More)

> President-elect Donald Trump names former PayPal Chief Operating Officer David Sacks as artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency advisor (More)


Politics & World Affairs
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Out of Pocket Medical Expenses

 If President elect Trump reduces Social Security allocations and/or reduces what Medicare pays that will increase out-of-pocket expenses for patients, there will be consequences.

The public may be forced to tolerate that for FOUR YEARS but at the end of those FOUR YEARS, Trump will be gone, and the general public will get its revenge by voting out of office every republican House of Representatives members as well as Senators.

In other words, I doubt very seriously if another Republican ever got elected to another Federal Office.

There are a lot of cancer patients for instance, that will be sick or the rest of their lives and expect Medicare to cover most of their medical bills except for the monthly premiums they pay.  Those people cannot afford to pay increased expenses.

It was the anger of the public that put Trump into office, and it will be the anger of the people that will start removing Republicans.

This is not a THREAT...  this is more like a promise.

Somewhat Political

 

Largest Universe Simulation EVER

The world’s largest simulation of the cosmos lays a new computational foundation for simultaneous extreme-scale dark matter and astrophysical investigations.

Researchers used the Frontier supercomputer to conduct the largest astrophysical simulation to date, simulating both atomic and dark matter across universe-sized scales. This was facilitated by advancements in HACC, a code developed to run on exascale-class supercomputers, now capable of performing quintillion calculations per second. 

This breakthrough in cosmological hydrodynamics simulations will aid in matching observational data with theoretical models.

Universe Simulation Breakthrough

The universe just expanded—at least in the realm of computer simulations.

Earlier this month, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory harnessed the power of the world’s fastest supercomputer to execute the largest astrophysical simulation of the universe ever achieved.   READ MORE...