$1.76 Billion is what their budget is right now and they can't/won't stop crime. Why do you think more money to that organization will help?

The missed(or intentionally ignored) part of these types of narratives is that the money isn't going into some administrators pocket, it is going to other programs that have been underfunded for years.

The original "defund the police" campaign was to have social workers, mental health workers, or medical personnel be the first responders to scenes in a few big cities because the police were delaying care and sometimes killing people instead of helping them when having medical or mental emergencies.

To me, it appears the main point of Stossel's concern is that the point of view isn't balanced politically. That's fine and all, but using the accepted list of credible sources as the evidence is false equivalency.

The question of whether the sources are factual or not in their reporting is 100% different than whether the sources slant their reporting to a specific narrative.

If he wanted to make the case that all of the left/far left sites are as untruthful as the right/far right sites then he should have introduced some additional analysis of the truthfulness of the articles on the sites. He didn't do that so his comparison is basically invalid.

It's really hard to listen to this guy where he freely mixes in a few facts with a ton of bold face lies.

He works really hard to hit all of the Trump talking points with full on lies and misdirection.

As a populous we need to have a little dignity and stop listening to people that tell verifiable lies non-stop. If they can't keep from telling lies to make their point then their point isn't worth hearing.

The very few good points this guy makes are slathered in so much oily misinformation it is really painful to try and hear him out.

I heard TangleThorns is a paid instigator from Russia. Fortunately he doesn't care if there is evidence for assertions, so this should be just as compelling as his musings.

I sent them an e-mail. it's $13K with shipping for the game unit.

I'm surprised that he didn't think of a way to defeat a metal detector. Identifying hacks to solve skilled tasks with effort are an important part of puzzle making.

Lazy people, you just need to bury them deeper. According to wikipedia you just need to bury them below 1,493 meters at the most and geothermal heating will take care of the rest.

This article covers the exchange a little better:
https://lynx.media/2017/12/06/police-captain-placed-leave-white-male-privilege-remark/

From my take the white male privilege comment seemed pretty accurate since the guy was arguing that the statistics from a study must be false since he hadn't personally experienced the activities that had been studied.

Yep, I was wrong on that one. Afterward I went and looked at solutions other people had and saw my mistake.

I guess the hint for these is the rotational test that they show at the first.

1) A sticky object that would let go like a wall crawler that climbs down a wall would create this effect. (see below)
2) You can't. As you approach infinite speed it would get very close. (see below)
3) The bike will move forward. (see below)
4) The outside parts of the wheels that overlap the rail. Also if the train has a flywheel that is larger than the wheel size the bottom of the flywheel would also always move backwards faster than the train was moving.

1) He says "what object is inside?" so I'm not sure a liquid would count. Also a viscous liquid would flow a slow rate and would probably not stop and start. You might be able to get a viscous liquid to stop and start if you had fins, but that still might just move slowly or gain enough momentum to roll fast without any flow.

2) A little excel calculation shows that the average velocity approaches twice the initial but will never hit it.

attempted m/s - total time - average m/s
1 100 1
2 50 1.333333333
3 33.33333333 1.5
...
200 0.5 1.990049751
201 0.497512438 1.99009901

3) I'm not sure if the parameters of this experiment are explained sufficiently.

If it is allowed to slip then no matter the mechanical advantage a hard pull should always be able to get the bike to skid back and defeat friction.

If the bike is not allowed to slip on the ground then I don't understand how it could ever move backwards, the only options would be that it doesn't move at all or it moves forward.

If it can't slip then the ratio of the pedal to the wheel is what is in question. Bikes only have gear ratios higher than 1 and the crank is smaller than the tire so the tire will always rotate more than the crank thus the bike should move forward.

Made me think of this song. Which I was surprised to find wasn't sifted yet.

http://videosift.com/video/Cashews-come-from-a-fruit

Form.A sounds a lot like the Stoner virus, I'm assuming one of those was a variant of the other. Some OEM's were unknowingly sending out floppies with that virus on them with peripherals for a while which really helped them spread.

I always thought the Michelangelo virus was a pretty serious one for pre-internet days.

Post internet, the Code Red virus was especially hard to get rid of. It never touched the disk so most scanners had a hard time with it.

Hmm.. Hysteria, as I recall, the treatment for that was regular orgasms administered by a doctor using a vibrator.

Yep:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-sex/201303/hysteria-and-the-strange-history-vibrators

I liked the point of this one, but it seemed like they were squirmish and didn't want to give too much info.

Other questions that could have been answered and that I don't want to google:

1. What does it look like?
2. Do other animals have them?
3. Does it or did it serve some biological purpose?
4. How did men ever discover that it was there?

His sense of amazement about everything he shows is exactly like every science teacher I've ever had. I feel like I've been really lucky to have science promoted to me in my life by people with such a wonderful perspective.