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The Meidas Touch news site recently produced a viral super-cut video after Fox anchor Laura Ingraham asked "Which Republican official or candidate has ever condoned or encouraged any form of violent physical assault ? Can you start naming them ? I can't think of any". The video was featured by Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC last night as her sign off to the 'The 11th Hour".

Meanwhile, as American politicians seek new ways to break wind, the GOP has a strategy for nullifying more Democrat votes... https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2022/11/07/gop-sues-reject-mail-ballots/ You know your party's policies suck when you have to cheat to get elected. Watching returns tomorrow...between slightly parted fingers over my face.

! Moderator Note I usually move threads that veer non-mainstream to Speculations, but capital-G God can't go there, so this conversation is over. If this is the kind of reasoning you plan on using in discussions, it's not welcome here. Nobody has that kind of time to waste.

Biggest complaint I hear from Canadian Trump fans, is that Biden hasn't done enough in the last two years, and they see the mid-terms as a 'referendum' on the Presidency. But given the concern over the economy, this view will turn out to be self-defeating, as a Republican controlled Congress and/or Senate will effectively 'hamstring' the President's administration, and keep him from doing anything that might help. The checks and balances in your political system are being used as obstacles to opponents so that they can later point to their failures. Not a sustainable, or productive, situation.

Virtually all human traits are evolutionary trade-offs between two deleterious states, which are usually environmentally dependent e.g.; Higher birth weight increases infant survivability in environments with unpredictable resource allocation, but increases likelihood of mother/baby death during childbirth. Increased immune function decreases the likelihood of infectious disease, but also increases inflammation susceptibility and reduces growth rates. Twin births increase fecundity in high resource environments, but decrease fecundity in low resource environments. Adaptations for enhanced cognition in humans increases susceptibility to both autism and schizophrenia. Temporal trade-offs in resource allocation to reproduction and growth predispose humans to aging related disease and cancer later in life. etc and so on. Virtually every environment a population is adapting to is changing. This creates a lag between the present trait state and the present environment known as evolutionary mismatch e.g., The thrifty gene hypothesis and increased rates of obesity/diabetes in Western society. Sedentary lifestyles and osteoporosis. The hygiene hypothesis and increasing rates of autoimmune disease as microbial diversity in human environments is decreased. The smoke alarm hypothesis and the prevalence of phobias and anxiety. Ergo, in many intrinsic ways human bodies are a inherently compromised. Unless one is using a very unconventional definition of perfection, the human organism cannot be described as perfect.

Calabi-Yau manifolds are Kahler manifolds. Kahler manifolds are symplectic manifolds. Symplectic manifolds are always even-dimensional. So no.

Harboring bacteria is not the issue. It is more of an issue if they can multiply in there. And unless you are in the habit of never washing your cookware (i.e. having plenty of food residue and moisture around) it won't be an issue. Warm water and soap is usually sufficient.

You can heat those things. You can get a pressure-canner , or just a big pot on the stove, with a rack inside and some boiling water - either for immersion of items just before use, or steam sterilizing. Or keep a UV light on your kitchen counter. Or use disposables from sealed, sterile packaging. Germaphobes have options regarding their utensils. But your skin and mucus membranes will still harbour some alien life - you would die without them.

Bacteria have a length of the order of 1 micron. The honing pattern in the cylinder liner of an engine, which is a pattern you can see but can't easily feel with your fingers, has grooves about a micron in depth. So if the scratches you are talking about are of this magnitude there will not be space for a colony of bacteria to hide in them. But as @Peterkinsays, there are some bacteria on all surfaces that have not just been sterilised and there will no doubt be a few in the scratches too. This is not a concern. The vast majority are not harmful and even for those that can be, our bodies are adapted to dealing with the sorts of low levels of them we are likely to encounter in daily life.

Wanting to live with difficulty rather than being dead is vain? Glad you are not in charge of the medical system.

Can you answer my question first? What do you mean by "scientifically backward" and "scientifically senseless"?

What usual weapons can destroy missiles in silos in the middle of South Dakota, or on submarines? The whole point is that since you cannot destroy them all, some will end up successfully used. What do you mean by "scientifically backward"?

The title statement is not true. Surely we don't need to exaggerate wrt the things McCarthy has said to make a point.

Jut the fact that computation happens, is my evidence. It is located on God's space ship.