Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 June 12

= June 12 =

"US PAT 455,487 B2"
This tool says "US PAT 455,487 B2" on the side. I tried searching for U.S. Patent number 455487 B2 but couldn't find anything. What is "US PAT 455,487 B2" referring to? Mel Gervais (talk) 03:33, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * US patent 455,487 (now referred to on the web site as 0455487) was issued in 1891. But what it actually says on the tool you're looking at is patent 7,455,487 B2, which was issued in 2008.  (I don't know what the B2 suffix means; a search for 7455487 on the site finds only the B2 version.) --142.112.221.43 (talk) 06:37, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * B2 means, "having a previously published pre-grant publication and available March 2001". So the patent application had already been published when the patent was granted. --Lambiam 06:49, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I totally missed the 7 in the front there. Mel Gervais (talk) 18:06, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Vladimir Lenin
Hello, my fellow epistemophiliacs. My question is simple and to the point: did Vladimir Lenin ever use the firehose of falsehood or some variation of this strategy? I ask, because Steve Bannon considers himself a "Leninist" of sorts (in terms of strategy and tactics) and in 2018, came out in favor of the firehose of falsehood, which is associated with modern Russian tactics. Thank you in advance. Viriditas (talk) 09:17, 12 June 2023 (UTC)


 * The first regular broadcast of a Russian radio station went on the air on 23 November 1924 (see ), ten months after Lenin's death. Even if Lenin had lived to see the station operational, very few people would have had a receiver. It has been demonstrated that the propaganda technique of the Big Lie can work effectively using mainly books and newspapers, but this does not meet the description of the FoF. --Lambiam 19:46, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for checking, great work. Viriditas (talk) 22:36, 12 June 2023 (UTC)