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@ForMud said:
Are dogs bilingual if their owner's are?

I'm always telling my wife to try Spanish when the dog doesn't understand what she's tell it to.do.in English.

German Shepherds always understand me better when I speak to them in German.

US political rhetoric: Analysis of 8 million speeches shows increased reliance on personal beliefs over facts
by University of Konstanz
Discussion of "alternative facts" has gained sad notoriety in US politics. Yet the question has been around much longer: How do people conduct political debates—is the focus more on facts or personal opinions? In the journal Nature Human Behaviour, a team of international researchers led by the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" looked into the matter.
The researchers examined political rhetoric in 8 million speeches by members of the US Congress between 1879 and 2022 to see if the focus of their language was more on data and facts or personal convictions and subjective interpretations.
The team noticed a significant decline in the use of evidence-based political rhetoric since the 1970s, with a historic low in the present. Over the same period, the researchers observed a decline in legislative productivity, an increase in the political polarization of both political parties as well as growing economic inequality in the US.

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-political-rhetoric-analysis-million-speeches.html

Got this email preview this morning. When I open it though there was not anything related to cigars in it lol.

In case anyone was wondering, the Harriet Tubman page was edited with a couple additions and then back up in entirety by April 7th.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nps-harriet-tubman-underground-railroad/