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One could make the argument that a politician's most important job is to get elected, otherwise they are useless. re are many ways to get elected. Your dad, the bootlegger', and the 'mob' could buy your election. You could be vice-President when the President gets assassinated. You could wiretap your opponnts offices in the Watergate building complex. You could be vice-President when the President quits to avoid impeachment. You could tell 'folksy' tales to connect with common folks, even though you were a rich ex-Hollywood actor. You could promise "Read my lips, no new taxes", in order to get elected, then raise taxes You could argue about what the definition of 'sex' is, in order to get re-elected. You could take advantage of a dispicable terror attack, and call yourself a 'war President' in order to get re-elected. Etc.. Heck, you could even incite a bunch of idiots to attempt the overturning of an election that you lost ... You want me to do Canadian PMs next, Peterkin ?

Intelligence is an umbrella term to cover a vast range of cognitive skills, and seems far less relevant to assessing job fitness than more precise measures of competence, sometimes called aptitudes. Competencies vital to a national leader would include social skills, big picture comprehension that sees beyond giant fields of data, sound judgement and quick decision skills, and capacity to empathize with people from all walks of life. It's a failure of democracy, of its filters, of its guardrails, when someone gets through whose competencies are only conning people and covering up their own lapses of judgement, empathy, decision-making, etc. Of course, Clinton was a smart guy who had most of the competencies I mentioned, and still somehow couldn't quite grasp that the POTUS is someone who lives in a fishbowl and can't sneak off and be a horny college boy again. Or that making juvenile excuses makes it far worse than just owning up and apologizing. Maybe the competency I left off the list was: being a fecking grownup. Grownups don't have to be moral paragons, but they do have to own up when they're not. I haven't followed Bo enough to know where he falls on the grownup spectrum, though I suspect he finds it a challenge. On first sighting I'll confess I said something unkind and petty about "village idiot hairdo, " and I regret that.

Conscious Energy has been banned as a sockpuppet of FreeWill

New data about how deeply police killings in the US have been undercounted for decades. Source here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01609-3/fulltext Summary: A core message here: “Currently, the same government responsible for this violence is also responsible for reporting on it,” and that's an obvious conflict of interest which results in needless problems like these.

Calling a person 'stupid' rather than specifically their behaviour gives them no avenue to rectify, since one has attacked their whole person.

I wouldn't say stupid. He is definitely uninformed however and perhaps unwilling to be informed. Everything has predictably been going to crap as a result. Don't conflate his acting with his intelligence level though. He's still at the top of the heap there. Playing the fool is as valid a strategy as any other.

Yes and I have several books on the philosophy of the Natural Numbers, along with large sections in many more maths books. You are using a different version of the Natural Numbers from the rest of us. You have not answered my question: Further, just because this is the philosophy section, it does not entitle you make make unsupported claims such as "youcannot have space without time", most especially not in support of other wild musings. You have asked several such questions and been answered before. Even though, just like with the Natural Numbers I do not know what you mean by the much more difficult notion to tie down, that of infinity. Be all that as it may, I will offer you some hopefully useful thoughts on these questions. But they will only be useful if you take some note of them, instead of immediately trying to challenge them with unconventional interpretations of conventional definitions. OK so space, with or without time and Infinity for a physical object. Using zero and the positive integers we can propose temporal and spatial dimensions as follows: Let S1, S2, S3, S4.......... denote spatial dimensions. Let T1, T2, T3, T4.......... denote temporal dimensions. Then for each of 0, S1, S2, S3, S4.......... spatial dimensions we can propose 0, T1, T2, T3, T4.......... temporal dimensions Now we can do the maths of how each of these situations would operate, ie what our universe would be like if there were eg say only two spatial and one temporal dimensions, two spatial and zero temporal, two temporal and zero spatial and so on. Then we can do the physics and compare our observations on our universe to see which one matches our maths the best. Again there are many books and meaty subsections of books and papers doing exactly this. The results of this is why we believe our ordinary sense impression that there are three spatial and one time dimensions. For any other combination we can derive mathematical results we do not observe. OK so to consider an physical object existing in this 3 + 1 universe and the relationship to infinity. Let us say a building stone in a dry stone wall. Say we move this brick 1 metre to the left, so that instead of being the fourthe stone from the left hand corner of the wall it is now a cornerstone. What have we done ? Well we have changed its spatial position and in doing so did the stone disappear at any point in the move and reappear anywhere else or did it at some instant occupy every point lying between its initial and final position ? I would say we have no evidence that any stone has ever done the former but has only ever passed through every point on its way. So what links the initial and final points ? Mathematically the word is continuity. And continuity requires infinite division. Now you have mentioned Planck lengths. Swansont has told you that we cannot measure within a PL. But he did not say that the points in the space within do not exist, just that we can't measure there. And continuity requires the existence of these points. So by the mathematics of continuity (infinite division) we have a physical infinite. The interesting thing to learn from all this is that an infinite sum can add up to a finite total, which is the principal underlying 'limits', another specialist term that you are so loosely bandying about. Note the importance of recognising and taking note of what others say.

How do you know all this about him? Do you know him or any of his peers, family or friends personally? I doubt you become the leader of a political party, then on to be prime minister, without some intellectual attributes. He may not portray himself in a way that is fitting for his position, maybe for a number of reasons. But you cannot judge his integrity and intelligence based on his public appearance or media portrayal. Just saying that's all.

Today (well, recently) I learned how to hard boil an egg. I've often had issues peeling hard boiled eggs as sometimes the shell would strongly adhere and I ended up taking off the shell in about 100 tiny pieces. Found an article that said the difficult peeling had to do with rapid cooling of eggs after cooking, or even with the boiling itself. I always used the 'cold water' method which involved boiling and rapid cooling afterwards. Now I bring the water to a boil, put eggs in a steamer basket, insert basket, cover and steam for 13 minutes. (I'm using duck eggs so chicken eggs would probably be around 11 minutes.) Once the 13 minutes are up, remove basket of eggs from steam and let cool at room temperature; no rapid cooling in cold water. I no longer have issues peeling hard cooked eggs! Only took me decades to learn!! 😃

Former Fed chair and current Secretary of the Treasury in Biden’s administration, Janet Yellen, is advocating for exactly that that. It would definitely help

Hopefully today you can also learn acceptance

Is he? Bad genetics? He shakes hands with people during pandemic crisis and gets covid later. Makes a big drama that in british english you whitchcraft instead of ping pong?! Generally says stupid things which its ridiculed in youtube videos. Mostly he stupid answers about the actual crisis that the UK has ensured me this guy is not intelligent!

Stupid people vote for stupid prime minister.