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Where did this red herring come from? We’re not talking about all criminal activity, we’re talking about police, who are supposed to protect and serve the public, and who should be held to a higher standard. We’re also talking about violent behavior. That’s not an instance of excessive force. I was short of straw before but now I have a lifetime supply. Sure. But you had only proposed screening for white supremacy Yes. If they had not tolerated such behavior, you might say...

Pick a random spot on Earth. Maybe you pick a desert. Or a mountain top. Or the arctic. Or a rain forest. A single random choice does not have to match any other. The Universe is changing. The particular time we happen to be observing it - we simply see what we see. Your idea that "all random points should observe roughly the same thing" relies on the Universe being static and unchanging.

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/gives+as+good+as+he+gets

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No. Why would you think so? What are the mental gymnastics involved in such a question? Oh, FFS. It’s hardly an argument, when it contains intellectual dishonesty

Thanks or the comment. There are eddies in the Mississippi River above the new control structure which flows to the Atchafalaya River and they travel upstream from the Mississippi about 1 mile to the structure. A friend said there was a video showing marine concrete was being pumped into the new structure, is undercutting happening with eddies at this structure location. I wonder about the eddies and if it's bottom would mostly stay closer to the structure if upstream concrete was sloped down to the structure. If so then there should be less undercutting. If the structure is undercut then the Mississippi River will divert to the Atchafalaya River. All videos, If did happen, are not found on the internet and may have been deleted. May need to give more please see link. https://www.google.com/search?q=old+river+control+structure&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS867US867&oq=old+river+control+structure&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l7.8791j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

You are playing a game, and you think that since there are winner, and losers, that game is inherently unfair ??? Who ever said it needs to be fair? If life had been possible during the hot dense state of the initial universe, they may have skipped Newtonian and GR gravity and gone straight to Quantum Gravity, as observational evidence, at that time, would have led to it. And they might have the equivalent of Maxwell's equations for the Electroweak force. They would never know ( until much later if they survived the symmetry break ) about the Weak Nuclear and the Electromagnetic forces. Maybe you think we should be complaining about how unfair it is for us ???

you're gonna have to elaborate, Dim. ( do you have an aversion to typing full sentnces and ideas )

Well, since we are sharing perspectives, this is my opinion on the matter. Removing monuments which are offensive to our modern sensibilities ( yes, history is VERY offensive ), is about as effective in combatting/mediating racism, as tweeting their support for a cause is for the hash-tag generation. IOW, next to useless.

I thought you were gonna say all those who don't want one, get shot. Watched an old movie, that I hadn't watched for quite some time, again last night. In the Heat of the Night with Sydney Poitier and Rod Steiger; Great movie, and appropriate to this discussion. Makes you realize how far we've come, and how far we still need to go

We actually give 3 guns to anyone who wants one. Only the folks who don’t want one at all get a single one.

Isn’t it cute that here in 2020 there still exist a small handful of small minded climate change deniers? I guess it’s be cuter if their ignorance didn’t come with such consequences on the wellbeing of humanity for not taking the threat seriously. On this topic, false positives are so much less risky than false negatives.

When one says “casts doubt”x it’s usually to deflect a claim. Does the motivation for police killing an unarmed, handcuffed, black man matter? Or are we only trying to stop white supremacist cops from taking black lives?

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I suspect it relates to the alleged instances of people time travelling without the benefit of physical mechanism. The example that comes to mind is of the two visitors to Versailles early in the 20th century who seemed to be transported back to an earlier period where the people they saw and the layout of the gardens matched (allegedly) the late 18th century. Wikipedia article. There is also a silent movie era newsreel (?) in which a member of the crowd appears to be using a mobile phone. All of the instances have simpler, more convincing, mundane explanations, but its a useful plot device for stories.

They are NOT the exact same things. You are confusing the word "special" with the word "preferred". We don't laugh at the the idea of the Earth being in a special place, we laugh at the idea that the Earth might be in a preferred place. When you were but a wee child and your mother said you were "her special boy", she simply meant you held some significance for her. You were 'neat', or 'cool'. She wasn't implying that the universe was centered on you. Similarly, we live in a special time and place. We witnessed the first time humans detected gravity waves and the invention of the autostereogram. If we weren't at this location (on Earth) at this time, we could not have seen that with our own eyes. Unfortunately we did not exist at that special time when the four fundamental forces were combined, but we are lucky to live at the special time when all these superclusters can be detected. And that is really neat.

Carbon C-14 radiometric dating works reliably only up to 50k years and only on organic remains because it has relatively fast decay rate with half-life ~ 5760 years. Did you mean Uranium and/or Rubidium-Strontium radiometric dating techniques instead? They are used to estimate rock age (actually to estimate the date when they were the last time melted). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubidium–strontium_dating

You have assumed the buyer's "satisfactions" are independent, which may not be true.