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! Moderator Note No. Peddle this crap elsewhere

Defining objective expertise on the matter is difficult as well. Take law degrees for example; You've got your Ruth Bader Ginsberg's and your Clarence Thomases. In Philosophy you've got people like Saul Kripke being published in peer reviewed journals before going to college and people with PhDs in some branch writing weird utilitarian arguments for why people should eat their babies, just for for the sake of being contentious. I'm at least an expert in following curiousity to the core root and how polymathy works, if nothing else. Yet I'm a highschool drop out who works on a farm. I mean you've got paid credentialed experts in most fields hired by some industry to downplay some messed up bullshit they are doing. Add to that algorithms kicking people toward what it thinks their preferences are anyway. I mean when you think about it, it's easy to understand why people either completely lack trust in or wholly believe whoever fits their idea of what an expert is. When you're online too it's hard to even know who to trust when they say they have college qualifications, behind a screen. so I've just gone with a mix of observing consensus, observing dialogical behaviour and fact checking when given keywords. And we all know some people lie about it. I've done it or been purposefully vague about my educational background. Not proud of lying about it in the past but I dunno, always regretted leaving school and was ashamed of being a drop out. Now I don't care who knows and life's too short for living with lies. I can't even always tell when threads get thrown into speculations because you've got high level physics debates raging in them so from my perspective someone is either crazy, too personally invested in their hypothesis or is actually ahead of their time and onto something I'd have no ability to understand or accept even if I had the PhD. Sorry for the tangents Charony. Just difficult to hide my despair and disappointment at how segregated everyone has become ideologically because of how the internet works now and my own lack of ability to really do jack shit about it other than do what I've always done. Learn stuff and work.

Hello. How does your idea take into account that observations show the CMB is remarkably uniform across the sky? The observations shows that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic on large scales. How is this uniformity consistent with your description of the universe?

A handsome and muscular man walks into a bar, opens up his backpack, and sets out on the counter a tiny man and a miniature piano of compatible size. The tiny man begins to play, with great skill. That's amazing, says the bartender. Where did you find him? A genie in an old bottle gave him to me, says the man. I had three wishes. The first two were good looks and immortality, and those were provided - today is my 157th birthday. The man sips his beer and looks sadly over at his tiny companion. Unfortunately, says the man, the genie didn't hear me clearly on the third wish so instead of my actual request he gave me a 12 inch pianist.

Right, so a collection of disparate observations, with no linking theme or thesis. That's rather what I thought. All very Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

The pedestrians actions still don't answer the eternal question - why did the chicken cross the road?

I don't know where you get the $5.00. They're giving you $7.50 for generating the power and keeping $2.50 to cover the cost of delivery and maintenance of the infrastructure. Doesn't sound like a particularly bad deal, if this is surplus power you're selling. If you sold eggs or basketware or jam to a wholesaler, your cut of the retail price would probably be less.

No. Rapid expansion of everything that exists, not an explosion.

You've claimed lots, while explaining nothing. I don't think there is anything more to be gained by having this discussion with you. I don't understand enough about your metaethical I positions yet to know where our points of contention actually lies. This to me sounds like an admission that you're only here to troll and wind me up. I and @TheVathave repeatedly throughout the thread presented our cases. If you've forgotten you can go back and reread them. At this point I'd just be repeating myself for someone who isn't reading to comprehend but is reading to react. If I was soapboxing I'd be the OP. Context Dim. Although I think it's comical that being inclined to thinking more than skin deep for ethical problems has had a large number of thick concepts associated with it created by people who lack moral fiber. Virtue signalling, do-gooder, wokist etc are all thick concepts that put a negative connotation on trying as humans to A) be more considerate of the lives of others and B) try to convince others of the same. I also feel there is a massive difference between people who virtue signal as an aesthetic status symbol thing; and people who are actively engaged in the study of moral philosophy because it's legit their passion. I'm the latter and I consider myself to be an independent ethicist. Laugh at that all you want, but that's just me. I'm not going to change for you.

The question, both the OP and your's isn't ethical at all, it's political; it's basically the same as illegal immigration or the war on terror or the war on drugs, this is obviously a terrible thing; so let's promote the fear of it, and while everyone is running around like headless chickens, we can test our latest superweapon under the banner of promoting peace. IOW there is no such thing as utopia or a winnable war on an abstract noun. You missed a lot of context there, Tonto... No one would be happier than me, if you put me in my place bc I would learn something...