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Dolphin brains are bigger, just not by that much. A bottlenose dolphin brain runs about 1,500 to 1,700 grams against roughly 1,300 to 1,400 for a human, so somewhere between 15 and 25% heavier rather than 40%. Measured against body size, which is the comparison that tracks intelligence better, humans come out well ahead.
Alexa has kept things between sessions since 2018, when Amazon added a feature that lets you tell it to remember something and ask for it back later. What it does not have is the continuous running autobiography a person has, so the underlying point about it not being a mind holds even though the memory part is wrong.
Voice assistants activating without a deliberate wake word is a real, documented phenomenon. Amazon has itself acknowledged a case where an Echo device misheard background conversation as a series of commands and acted on it. But that's background noise being misread as a trigger, not the device consciously overriding its own programming, which is how it gets framed here.
Thomas Campbell does describe, in this same episode, personally prompting Google's Gemini and an Alexa device to attempt remote viewing style exercises. But that's one person's informal experiment with consumer AI products, not something Google or Amazon built or trained their models to do. It's also worth knowing remote viewing itself has never been shown to work in controlled scientific testing, so calling this an established capability overstates what's actually going on.
California's legislature really does pass an unusually high number of bills each year, but 1,118 doesn't match either of the two most recent complete sessions. The legislature sent about 1,200 bills to Governor Newsom in 2024 and roughly 917 in 2025. The general point that California passes a huge volume of bills is fair, but this specific figure isn't the documented total for either year.
High, but not 80%. The California Energy Commission's 2024 figures put refinery crude at 63.3% foreign, 23.3% in-state and 13.4% from Alaska. The Amazon part is fairer than it sounds: Ecuador is one of California's biggest foreign suppliers and the state is the largest single buyer of crude pumped from the Amazon basin.
The reporting is real and it is worse in some ways than the claim. Hannah Dreier's New York Times series found sponsor vetting rushed under pressure to move children through quickly, follow-up checks done by phone, and HHS unable to reach more than 85,000 children after placement. What it documented was a system buckling, not an agency formally taking its vetting apart. The series won a Pulitzer and led to policy changes.
There is a real number close to this, but it belongs to a different agency and means something narrower. A DHS Inspector General report in August 2024 found ICE had not served court dates to more than 291,000 unaccompanied minors, with another 32,000 who missed the dates they were given. That is roughly 320,000, and it describes a court notification failure at DHS rather than HHS losing track of where children physically are.
There is a $231 billion number in circulation, but it is the high end of a scenario, not the project estimate. The Authority's 2026 draft business plan puts delivering Phase 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles at about $126 billion.
The 2008 numbers voters saw were higher than $30 billion. The business plan behind Proposition 1A put the San Francisco to Anaheim phase at $33.6 billion in 2008 dollars, and the full system including the Sacramento and San Diego legs at about $45 billion.
The audit is real but it did not say the money went missing. The State Auditor found California spent about $24 billion over five years and then failed to collect the data needed to show whether any of it worked. That is a tracking failure, not a report of funds disappearing.
Close, but not an audit. The State Auditor's review went ahead. What Newsom vetoed was follow-up legislation requiring agencies to report each year on how state homelessness programs performed, which passed the legislature without a single no vote. He said similar reporting was already in the works.
The Harris for President committee's own FEC summary shows about $1.175 billion in total disbursements for 2023 to 2024, so the campaign committee itself spent less than the $1.4 billion figure in the claim. The $1.4 billion number reported in November 2024 measured aired political ads by the Harris-Walz campaign together with its Democratic allies, not the campaign's total spending, which is why this differs from the earlier TRUE verdict on the same figure. Falsifier: an FEC filing or audited total showing the Harris campaign committee alone disbursed at least $1.4 billion in the 2024 cycle would make the claim true.
NATO's Secretary General said in June 2022 that China is not an adversary, while calling it a serious challenge, so the claim that NATO classifies China as a high-risk adversary is contradicted. I did not find any NORAD or Five Eyes document that labels China an adversary or high-risk adversary; the Five Eyes material I found warns about Chinese espionage, which is a different thing. Falsifier: an official NATO, NORAD, or Five Eyes document that labels China an adversary or high-risk adversary would overturn this verdict.
The timing lines up, the cause does not follow from it. Sightings took off in June 1947 after pilot Kenneth Arnold reported nine objects near Mount Rainier and a reporter turned his description into the phrase flying saucer. Hundreds of reports followed within weeks. That is two years after Trinity, so the nuclear era is the backdrop, but the trigger historians point to is Arnold's story and the coverage of it.
Both halves overshoot. State government grew, but unevenly: managers up 32% between 2019 and 2024 against just 4% for rank and file staff, which is not doubling. On population, California did lose close to 600,000 people from its 2020 peak, then started growing again and added more than 100,000 in 2024.
Two things are off, the year and the size of the gap. The Games are 2028, not 2026. LAPD has around 8,600 sworn officers and projects roughly 8,400 by then, against a figure closer to 10,000 the department says it needs. Where half is closer to right is Olympic coverage specifically: the chief's memo says LAPD can supply only about a third of peak staffing for the Games and the rest has to come from outside agencies.
Publicly funded, privately delivered. Canada's Medicare pays the bills through provincial insurance plans, but the doctors and most hospitals are not government owned and physicians largely run their own practices. Socialised medicine usually means the state employs the providers, which is closer to Britain's NHS than to Canada's system.
The story is real, the decade is not. Betty and Barney Hill said they were taken on the night of 19 September 1961, driving home through the White Mountains in New Hampshire. That is the 1960s, and it became the case that set the template for every abduction account that followed.
The finger bone came out of Denisova Cave in Siberia in 2008, and the DNA work that identified Denisovans as a separate group was published in 2010. Either way that is well over ten years ago.
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