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He used to say stuff like that all the time! Me: "For every dollar's worth of product I sell, I make a dime and you make ninety cents." Him: "You think I get to keep all that?! I have expenses I have to meet." Me: "It's no different for me. I don't get to keep the whole dime." Him: "My expenses are far greater." Me: "Yes, probably about nine to ten times greater, the same as your compensation." And like mistermack, nothing could persuade the man that his perspective was faulty and skewed in the extreme towards himself as the business owner. There's always something a resource owner will prioritize over employees who turn those resources into profit, and traditionally that's one reason we need strong unions.

Reminds me of the “I built this with no help” business-folk. You didn’t happen to work for Craig T Nelson, by chance ?

You read my mind. I was thinking of the Amur tiger. Korean researcher Sooyong Park spent months in the Siberian and Chinese forests, eating rice, nuts and salt, and removing all traces of his own poo, hiding in a hole underground for years to film them. Yet we have extensive footage of these animals and their family life. And they had been seen and captured before. Also, bigfoot must be the only primate species in like 55 million years that's not highly social, curious, extremely boisterous. Isn't that peculiar? And lastly, we're aware of the existence of a ancient species of ape (the Denisovans) thanks to a tiny fragment of a phalanx from the pinky of one hand, including sequences of their DNA. And we can't obtain definite proof of the existence of a big hulking ape who inhabits the Earth now?

Time is a dimension that always moves forward, never backwards. But as we move closer to the black hole, time first turns 45% and then 90% and time changes its axis. The question is where does the time go?

Do you have a source for the latter statement? I can’t recall coming across such a comforting assessment of the effect of climate change.

I hope the MAGA crowd was listening when Biden made the comment about his hecklers being entitled to their outrageousness in a democracy as long as they avoided violence. I really hope they noted that, at a MAGA rally, protesters are threatened by violence from TFG himself. But I've all but given up hope that the MAGA crowd understands the importance of democracy in their lives since it's been so distorted by the entertainment sources they turn to for "news". I hold a LOT more hope that many Republicans see a greater divide between MAGA goals and what they've always believed in, a United States of America that takes personal responsibility for its actions and keeps the government from over-regulating our personal lives. Non-MAGA Republicans are normally very disapproving of political violence, which made it easy to stir them up against the BLM protests and events where FOX News could claim the left had organized into ANTIFA. Those folks can be persuaded to see reason, I think, and pointing out how violent TFG is in his rhetoric works to turn them away from him.

This is not correct. It’s paid while they are working and saved for future expenditure. You clearly don’t support the practice of paid sick leave, which is fine, but let’s not misrepresent the mechanism by which it’s offered solely to bolster a weak unpopular argument. What is the greatest point of leverage an individual has against their company, in your opinion? Where is this great strength you see? The employee either does what they’re told or they get fired and possibly replaced. It’s strange to me how anyone could say this doesn’t represent an obvious inequality of power and I’d like to better understand your position.

If you want to know what kind of wildlife is in the area you ask a trapper, end of story.

Tick all boxes that apply, not just one.

Singularity functions are not new in Mathematics. Here are some ways of handling them and indeed making good use of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_function note this can be downloaded as a pdf. All these oddities and fractals us rethink our ideas of 'points' and point set topology. This is because the classical view of a point is as a 'static' identifiable object. But if we look the other way for a fractal, (expanding to larger and larger scales, rather than contracting to smaller and smaller ones) our 'static' points (I would rather use the word fixed, but Banach has already bagged that in the fixed point theorem) are not static at all but change as the scale increases. So if we take the traditional isotropic and homogeneous n dimensional ball about a point, ie as a neighborhood including that point as an interior point, we find the properties of that point depend to some extent on the other points in the ball, which in turn depend upon the scale of the ball.

SergUpstart has been banned for repeated and persistent thread hijacking, and bad-faith arguments (specifically, propaganda)

For any scientists who are skeptics of Bigfoot. It's not that we don't understand Occam's Razor. We just disagree on what is more likely. Bigfoot exists or every single report in the past 200+ years is either a hoax or misidentification. Take into consideration that reports of Bigfoot throwing things at people, dates back to at least 1849, but it wasn't a known behavior of apes until the 1960s