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We have a thread here in ~news that's more focused on articles and events, but I also want us to have a more conversational space to process the day. Consider this an open forum for your own thoughts and feelings.

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Debate starts ~10 minutes from the time of this posting.

Info from The Washington Post:

Location: Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. (This was originally scheduled to be held at the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame withdrew, saying the fact that it would have to limit student attendance and volunteer opportunities because of the pandemic erased the reason to host a debate at the university.)

Moderator: Chris Wallace, anchor of “Fox News Sunday”

Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. There will be no opening statements. Wallace will dive right in with the first question to Trump. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that Wallace has chosen. They are:

1. the Trump and Biden records
2. the Supreme Court
3. the coronavirus pandemic
4. the economy
5. race and violence in cities
6. the integrity of the election

Following on the spirit of the book recommendation topic we can just log here what we are reading recently. I'm guilty of reading many books in parallel and oftentimes not finishing them nevertheless, here is my current list:

• Andy Weir: Artemis
• Sapiens
• Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
• David Graeber: Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
• Michael Booth: The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
• Cullen Roche: Pragmatic Capitalism

##NEWS## "A bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee says a high-profile hearing on UFOs is just the start of their push for answers. And they are threatening to use heavier-handed tactics if the Pentagon and intelligence agencies stand in their way." (The Hill) ##

Since many people are upset about the homepage getting swamped with UFO/UAP news, maybe a dedicated thread to contain all the discussion would help.

Edit: also please keep the conversation civil

Direct links to each sub-thread:

Link posts (newest first)

• "A bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee says a high-profile...
• "The UFO congressional hearing was 'insulting' to US employees, a top Pentagon official...
• "Congress update: U.S. Senate passes multiple UAP/UFO measures" (D. Dean Johnson...
• This comment on Reddit explained the legislation that this hearing is about, I'll quote...

Text posts (newest first)

• I share sentiments with several others in this post. While the topic of extraterrestrial life is...
• Just my $0.02 since opinions are like assholes, everyone has one... I'm not arrogant enough...
• I want to point something out here as a skeptic and as someone who laughs at these...
• I don't want to drag the conversation down with an extensive write-up of my own thought...
• This comment was deleted by the poster, but there're still some discussions underneath
• Does anyone want to hypothesize why there are congressional hearings about this? Do...

Off-topics (newest first, posts are placed here only after it's noticeably clear that comment labels have taken effect)

• Hypothesizing that aliens might well exist based on the vastness of our universe is not...
• With COVID lab leak article getting traction here, and now this story getting attention, I'm...

This will be a noisy thread. Please use the ignore feature if you do not want to see it in your feed.

This is a continuation of the original thread from election day, which was here.

These threads are intended as more conversational spaces to process the day and results. Consider this an open forum for your own thoughts and feelings.

There is also a thread here in ~news that's more focused on articles and events.