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It may be worth noting that the transition from soldiers taking an oath of loyalty to the state to an oath of loyalty to an individual leader is one of the changes that was important in the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the imperial...

If you agree he just dodged an unconfortable question, then there is no need for the mental gymnastics about what "It" means.

is it? and what is the need for the mental gymnastics trying to gaslight readers that the question was not about a new report?

This is why it's necessary: misleading: Just now. Asked if "as commander in chief" he takes responsibility for the strike on the Minab school he answers: dishonest:

President Trump does not read briefings (it's not clear that he's really even capable of reading at a grade level necessary for doing so) and does not even like attending briefing meetings, and the Cabinet sessions he does attend are essentially...

Back it up - with links and quotes from reliable source. Be honest - Just go where the facts take you. Don't try to frame something towards a particular point of view. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/posting-guidelines.2064/

The President should be aware of the current status of intel briefings which he should be receiving daily, or more than daily, during an active war. I don't think anyone is suggesting he personally should be frequently skimming the NYT frontpage...

My apologies for the un/related mixup. I meant that the simplest answer would be that it has nothing to do with Zero Point Energy, either real or imagined. The simplest answer, in the sense of Occam's Razor, is the one that introduces the fewest...

If you agree he just dodged an unconfortable question, then there is no need for the mental gymnastics about what "It" means.

If the audience does not start laughing when she goes into that "light-language adjacent" glossilalia, I'll be surprised.

It's got Emily Blunt! Cutesy animals and a Thomas Kinkade Master of Light (TM) house! Baddies! A car chase! Crop circles not being made by two eccentric blokes with a rope and a plank! To quote Maurice in The IT Crowd (series 2, 1), every value...

If the audience does not start laughing when she goes into that "light-language adjacent" glossilalia, I'll be surprised.

See https://threedollarkit.weebly.com/ariel-school.html for Charlie's analysis.

The original preprint cited 19 prior works (including six prior Villarroel-coauthored papers). None of the other papers dealt with the visual detection of objects in Earth orbit, even though this has been a topic of keen study for decades. (See...

Christopher Mellon, on behalf of The Disclosure Foundation, has sent a letter to arXiv in response to its moderation and removal of two of Beatriz Villarroel's papers back in October.