matthewmercury

Test your hypothesis. If it’s valid, you can make observations about people and from those you will be able to reliably predict their birthdate. Publish your results.

This is all entirely false. He was born James Donald Bowman.

He changed it to Jorkin Depeanux Vance.

“Yes, we keep setting fires in the attic and flooding the basement. We don’t know how to stop that from happening. However, ignoring that, Carl, we are pretty sure we can figure out how to build a skyscraper across the street. And hey, if we screw it up, it’ll be across the street, not in the attic or the basement, which are still on fire and flooded. We might even figure out how to fix those by working on the skyscraper, maybe, you don’t know.”

Some people live in a lovely old rambling mansion with a busted HVAC system stuck on full blast sometimes, fires breaking out in the northwest and west wings all the time, and rising damp from a basement full of water seven feet deep and rising, but they think they should start building a new skyscraper on the empty lot across the street.

Before you claim to be able to build me a new house, let’s see if you can paint my shed.

What if he’s got to move these refrigerators? What if he’s got to move these color tv’s?

Before anybody can realistically claim that we can radically change the environment and climate on Mars, let’s see them stop climate change on earth.

It’s “zed” because Brits know that it came from “zeta,” which has no “d” in it. That’s also why they don’t say “ay bee see dee eee eff jee”, they say “al bed cam del epp dye gam.”

“I didn’t really relate to that song, y’know, because I had different things in my Jeep, than he had in his Jeep.”

You want somebody to prove that Russia doesn’t have the capacity to produce their own ball bearings? May I direct you to the article?

I also hate Americans who disagree with and want to hurt me.

It’s pretty great judo. The hard right spews neverending bullshit as a weapon to erode the concept of truth and it’s ineffective to try to debunk or fact-check that noise. Ridicule lands well against fascism though.