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I know this wasn't asked directly of me, but... I kind of envision a process where we look at the type of specific government policies/laws that led to harm, then try to assign some sort of reparation for that harm. The policies/laws could be slavery, housing, legal, etc. The reparations could take the form of money, education, preference, funding, etc. A 'reparations office' could be set up, and the stronger the claim for harm, the greater the reparation. I don't think we can handle 60 million claims, so perhaps if your claim is not strong enough for an individual claim (evidence of a specific act that caused provable harm) claims might be filed in specific 'classes', like 'my family was impacted by school segregation'. We need a reasonable limit as we don't want to sink the ship while trying to help the passengers. We could probably do sort of a 'means test', where your reparations decline as your means increase. I also think we have to accept the fact that any reparations will not make everyone whole again. We can't give what we don't have. I envision this being more than just a gesture, but less than 100% reparations. I don't want to seem paternalistic, but I think we need to make reparations less in cash, and more in what I would call foundational support. We are trying to fix a long term problem we created and I don't thinks handing a bunch of people a pile of cash will fix a problem in the long term. Foundational support would be more in the form of supporting education, loans, opportunities, etc. Obviously I've not completely thought this out, nor am I in a position speak for others. These are just my early thoughts on how we might address this issue.

Courts are not set up to remedy generational injustice. They can at best handle some of the fallout, like predatory rental practice and eviction, and there's work being done to expedite that. Legislative bodies exist to handle large-scale problems that courts cannot. With laws. Given the gridlocked and circus-like atmosphere of the federal legislative branch in US, some of these reparations could conceivably be implemented at the state level, one weird and histrionic skirmish at a time.

What if it's "My grandmother had to go to a crappy school, live in a sub-par home in a polluted neighborhood, and was denied loans based on where she lived because of discriminatory government sanctioned redlining practices"? That gives us a basis to start calculating average earnings that were lost. We already know the differences between what white families in the same cities earned on average as opposed to those who were victims of redlining.

I can consolidate my arguments on this subject. We can discuss politics, because we can disagree on how much to spend on national defense or fixing the highways. Those are political issues. We can't discuss racism, child abuse, and discrimination in the same way, because these are moral issues. They're just wrong, and it's very frustrating that some folks here are trying to make it seem less wrong.

Elon is a conductor on the world stage, increasingly consumed by narcissism and the desire for public exposure. He's looking to have a cage fight with Zuckerberg. If he proves one thing, and that's money can't buy class behaviour. The more money you have, the more you can isolate yourself from reality, and eventually sycophants become your only source of information that you rely on. Remind you of anyone?

Another point first raised on the Sub Brief YT channel and elsewhere, is the manufacturing process involved of bonding the Titanium end-caps onto the cylindrical CF hull with an epoxy glue - as shown below in a screenshot taken from a promotional video originally published by OceanGate. Bonding such dissimilar materials with an epoxy is a highly dubious procedure to start with, because it creates a potential weak point whose real strength under a compressive stress of hundreds of atmospheres is very difficult to predict or test. But if you are going to adopt such a technique, then you don’t do it like this - out in an open warehouse space with a bunch of guys in carpenters aprons, standing on wooden step-ladders, and slopping the gunk on from a tin with paint brushes. A safety critical jointing procedure of this type should really be carried out in a sterile dust-free environment with fume extraction running, and all the operatives clad in those special lint-free white hooded suits - the sort of precautions you would normally see in publicity photos of NASA technicians assembling satellites ready for launch into deep space.

No to mention Elon Musk is on record saying quite nonchalantly "a whole bunch of people will die", in the process of going to Mars. Downright reckless and contrary to NASA's principles of safety.

Then I have mis interpreted many posts over the past 19 pages worth. Fair enough, I'm happy for you to compensate as required asap. I can only imagine the situation in the US and comparing that to my own experiences within my own country they may not align. Likewise, someone from the US who has only experienced from that perspective may not be able to align their experiences with other countries across the world. Yet here we are often making arguments based on our own experiences and accusing each other of being wrong. Because some people jump on this and twist it to make racist accusations against others. I have been accused of being racist for not recognising and celebrating a person's skin color. On the other hand when recognising and acknowledging a person's skin color I have also been accused of being racist. So in the case of my anecdote I recognised that I could not attend the event because I'm not black, I was accused of being racist for stating that I was not invited to an event because it was for black people only. On the other hand I'm also a racist for not celebrating my friend's skin color, even though I recognise that Mike is a wonderful guy, a good, kind , honest and generous person.

The singularity is a gravitational wave with no upwards limit in frequency. Consequently, we measure the age of the Universe to be 13.8 billion years, and also the past is infinite. This is the simple essence of wave-particle duality. We observe what appears to be a point in space, and any point in space we observe can be traced back to the original singularity. The point is what we conceive of in relation to our observation, and this is what we measure. The singularity is the objective reality underlying all observational experience.