Friday, February 14, 2020

Odds and ends

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When you say balls, I’m assuming you mean testicles, of course ;)
Of course, being male, MALE elephants have to have testicles, as that’s the case for nearly every male mammal (I said nearly). What elephants don’t have is a scrotum. Weird, huh? I did some searching, and found a diagram that shows what I mean.
So they DO have balls. They just don’t have external balls. It’s like a whale, except apparently elephants never showed any sign in evolutionary past that they ever had a scrotum; when whales possibly did. Whales’ testicles are on the inside of their bodies to keep them at the perfect temperature. If most other mammals (including humans) had their balls on the inside, sperm would get cooked. That’s why most have an actual scrotum. But as for whales, in the water they would likely get too cold for sperm production. So it seems elephant


Saturday, February 8, 2020

Odds and ends

Quizas, quizas, quizas.




'Meanwhile, experts worried about domestic disinformation are looking to other countries for lessons. The most successful recent example may be Indonesia, which cracked down on the problem after a wave of viral lies and conspiracy theories pushed by hard-line Islamists led to the defeat of a popular Christian Chinese candidate for governor in 2016. To prevent a similar disruption in last year’s presidential election, a coalition of journalists from more than two dozen top Indonesian news outlets worked together to identify and debunk hoaxes before they gained traction online. But while that may sound like a promising model, it was paired with aggressive efforts by the state to monitor and arrest purveyors of fake news—an approach that would run afoul of the First Amendment if attempted in the U.S.'

Please click on the web-link below to read the full article on HOW ELECTIONS ARE WON, USING DIGITAL MANIPULATION :-

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/?utm_medium=10today.ad3li.20200208.421.2&utm_source=email&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=10-for-today---4.0-styling




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