Everybody knows Hillary’s a liar. Everybody knows Hillary’s corrupt. Everybody knows Hillary’s a criminal. Everybody hates Hillary, and no one enthusiastically supports her; her voters are just afraid of Trump.
I’ve heard these things stated over and over throughout the primaries, without any sources to back them up. Who needs sources? We all know Hillary Clinton’s the worst, don’t we? She wouldn’t have decades of scandals and all these hearings and investigations if she weren’t. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Well, except the smoke about Whitewater, because that seven year investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing by the Clintons.
And it turns out that six official investigations into Vince Foster’s suicide found nothing to suggest the Clintons had a hand in his death. In fact, there’s no evidence pinning them to any of the dozens of deaths they’re said to have caused.
There’s always Benghazi, though. Sure, the eighth investigation ended the way the first seven did, with no evidence of wrongdoing, but maybe another investigation will find the truth!
Okay, but what about her email server and the way she compromised national security and tried to cover it up? FBI director James Comey even overstepped his authority when speaking about the investigation’s findings in order to publicly condemn her! Except he also said that “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case”, and later clarified before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing that there was no evidence Clinton’s server had been hacked, that Clinton did not lie, and that she did not break the law.
Well, she still voted for the Iraq War when she was senator! Which she freely admits was a mistake. She and other senators believed that the Congressional Resolution they were voting for would authorize the president to use force only after “diplomatic or other peaceful means” had been exhausted. She even said during the Senate debate on the resolution that attacking then and there could “set a precedent that could come back to haunt us.”
Still, she won’t release the transcripts of those speeches she was paid for! How dare she not give up her intellectual property created while she was a private citizen, never mind that one of the speeches is already freely available for viewing online. Why can’t she be like Trump and Sanders and just refuse to release her tax returns instead?
But she’s a liar! There’s a video of her lying for thirteen straight minutes! True, it’s manipulatively edited and mostly just showing how her views, like anyone else’s, have evolved over time, and Politifact ranks her as the most honest candidate, and the former executive editor of The New York Times called her “fundamentally honest and trustworthy,” but well, everybody knows she’s a liar!
All right, so she’s never been convicted of any crime, and all the investigations into her alleged scandals keep coming up with nothing, and she won the Democratic primaries after consistently polling ahead of Sanders, but that’s only proof of her corruption. She’s rigged the system so that she can get away with anything! She just somehow hasn’t rigged it well enough to keep all this stuff out of the press.
Because that’s definitely more rational than concluding that, just maybe, she’s an imperfect but well-qualified candidate with a bad reputation formed by decades of smears and conspiracy theories.
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At first glace, Pando Forest in Utah, United States looks like a regular forest of aspen trees; in fact, they are regular – except for the fact that they’re all genetically identical to one another.
Though it looks like a forest, the whole thing is actually a single organism. Every tree — or stem, technically — is genetically identical, and the whole forest is linked by a single root system. Pando’s aspens reproduce asexually by sprouting new stems from the root structure.With over 40,000 stems and a weight of 13 million pounds, the Pando clonal colony is the heaviest known organism in the world. It’s also among the oldest living things on the planet — the root system is an estimated 80,000 years old.
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Where can I read your comics that everyone is so thrilled about? I want to be thrilled. Thrill me, Anna S.
I will thrill you the only way i know how; with math. and love.
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Trains of Thought
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Me: I feel like there are more books every time I come back to the room.
Roommate: They’re probably multiplying. You left them alone for too long.
Me: They’re reproducing!
Roommate: …
Me: What do you think would happen if my Indian feminist literature and my Medieval English literature books tried to have a baby book? What would that book be like? Which book would it take after? Would it combine their interests into one super book or rebel against them and be its own book?
Roommate: …
Me: …
Roommate: …
Me: I need to go to bed. -
The Greek historian Polybius (206-126BC) was so impressed by the clamour of the Gallic army and the sound of their war horn, the carnyx, he observed ~ “There were countless trumpeters and horn blowers and since the whole army was shouting its war cries at the same time there was such a confused sound that the noise seemed to come not only from the trumpeters and the soldiers but also from the countryside which was joining in the echo”.
The carnyx, was the long, slender instrument used by the Celts in the last three centuries BC. The head, was typically stylized in the shape of a creature such as the boar. A joined section at the jaws also moved when trumpeted – striking further terror into the enemy. The Carnyx may also have been played at feasts, weddings, funerals and festivals.
When the remains of seven carnyx were unearthed, Christophe Maniquet, an archaeologist at INRAP, the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives), was curious to find out exactly what sound it produced as to have driven the Romans mad – or was used to call upon the dieties, such as the god Toutatis.
In 2004, more than 500 iron and bronze items placed as offerings to the gods were discovered a small 30cm-deep pit in Tintignac, in the Corrèze department. “These items were deliberately damaged so that they could not be used again by mere mortals,” said Maniquet.
Some 40 fragments were identified as being carnyx parts, making it possible to restore a tall, 1.8-metre-long instrument with a stylised boar head at the top – a first in archaeology. “Some carnyx pieces were discovered in England, Scotland, Germany and Italy, mainly in the 19th century, but the context was unclear and we have never found so many instruments in one go,” said Maniquet.
The Deskford Carnyx, the only surviving head-piece from Britain, was found at Deskford in Banffshire. It is thought to have also been buried as a ‘votive offering’ and was used between around AD 80 and 200. On display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, it is made of brass and bronze.
Definitively, the carnyx would be considered a wind instrument, part of a sub-family of brass instruments defined by the presence of a mouthpiece. The sub-sub family would be natural brass instruments without valves. With its conical shape the carnyx resembles a soft brass instrument like the horn, with a more muffled sound than a cylindrical trumpet-like brass instrument.
Unfortunately since it was impossible to play the instruments the Gauls had so carefully dismantled, Maniquet asked an instrument maker to reproduce a brass carnyx of the same size. The archaeologist worked with experts from the acoustics laboratory at the Maine-CNRS University in Le Mans, headed by Joël Gilbert, a brass instruments specialist, who carried out an in-depth analysis of the specimen.
A study presented by a group of researchers and instrument makers in Le Mans, revealed that the resonance frequency determined the series of playable notes. In a well-designed instrument this resembles a harmonic series. If the musician had the base note he could produce others (mainly octaves, fifths and thirds), by modulating air flow and lip tension.
This analysis moved the team to conclude that the carnyx was not, as previously thought, a primitive and structurally limited instrument. They have discerned that further models and research will produce more accurate reproductions in the hopes that it may be finally learned what sound it was that so horrified the Romans and other enemies…
that’s one sexy method of overcompensating
Gonna add a link of the thing being played, just so you know why everyone crapped themselves upon hearing it.
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one of my favorite tropes is when your group of main characters has been split up for questioning and they’re all answering the same questions in a neatly-spliced montage
my favorite trope is when the stories blatantly and hilariously conflict
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Article: The case for the not-quite-pristine egg
Article: The case for the not-quite-pristine egg
A great article on using vaccines in poultry for salmonella prevention (instead of industrial washing): washing removes the cuticle of the egg, which shortens it’s shelf life and makes it permeable to air and bacteria.
I believe this is how they have almost eliminated salmonella in the Danish egg industry.
RT. eggs with the cuticle don’t actually have to be refrigerated for a while either. We leave ours out for a week or two. Man, I love hens.
Yeah, in Europe
wethey don’t do this industrial washing ridiculousness. Vaccinate the hens and fix the problem at that end of production :)
