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Trump's has just said that "The real verdict will be the presidential election" which is simply false. The real verdict was just given by a jury of his peers, and unless it is overturned on appeal (highly unlikely), he is now - and will remain - a felon convicted on 34 criminal indictments.

On only 34 counts out of the 34? Kind of disappointing. He'll take it as a win!

It doesn't get blown up. There is only an intense, very short, pulse of HEAT, no shock wave in space, that should melt any rocks or ice and they would immediately freeze again but fused together, and it gets a push from outgassing.

"Bushman" is frequently considered to be a derogatory term, and the poster does a good job in demonstrating why it is to be the case. Frequently they refer to the the San peoples who have developed an incredible set of traditional knowledge and survival skills. Those might in fact come handy when the rest of us have polluted the Earth in pursuit of more convenience. As a matter of fact, many "primitive" folks can teach us a lot regarding resource stewardship (a research area that has gained prominence in the last decade or so). If you want to meet clever folks who are able to eke out a living without destroying everything, you probably should talk to those that you so readily dismiss.

Trump has been convicted on all 34 indictments by a unanimous verdict of the jury. Sentencing will be in about 5 weeks time in mid July.

It’s not bias to support a model that has evidence supporting it. In a similar vein, one should be able to show evidence if bias, rather than just an article which lays out claims of bias. And a “champion of links to studies and citations and references on this forum” might be expected to provide an actual link.

It can only hide behind the sun for a few months at most.

I SO want your dream to be realised as a dung beetle in elephant country. A nice little lesson in humility though I'm sure it would be lost on you.

Just stay on topic, dude. You’re not Galileo

I was joking. I'd share a beer with you two too. Certainly possible. I prefer to think in terms of how the character of Muhammad has been construed through time. Like what influential people that came after him did with his figure, as well as the early offshoots of Christianity at the time he is supposed to have lived. Don't forget it was Waraqa ibn Nawfal, a Nestorian priest (Christian), who authorised him as a prophet.

There are pronunciations listed in most dictionaries nuance is listed as “nü-än(t)s” at merriam-webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuance The pronunciation is described by a phonetic alphabet, dashes indicate syllables and sometimes CAPS are used to show which syllable should be emphasized Different pronunciations could simply be from regional dialects.

I haven't read the book but I do know that is makes an argument that Muhammad suffered from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy as well as Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

As @iNow point's this is two different questions: 1/ The advantage of God's starts by trying to teach children the advantages of not taking more than they need, for instance, we need to chop down tree's to build our home's so we create a God of the tree's that we thank for providing our home's, but will be angered if we take a tree that we don't need and will strike down in some way that is fearful; when we forget that lesson we get Easter Island 2/ The advantages of religiosity, started because someone has a good idea that makes sense (at the time) and works to make thing's better for most people, it spreads because of that and the powerful teaching tool that's God. The problem we have now is that we 'know' there's no god of the tree's, is the, so called, sofistication of the 'science' of politics; the Trump's of this world are very good at making a specious idea seem like it's good and it spreads through all the children that know there's no bogie man to make them think twice.

It was not obvious to ancient people that the ground we stand on is the surface of just another object with mass, like an apple except bigger. You need that insight before you can construct a theory like Newton’s. Astronomy, in particular the predictable motion of the planets and the heliocentric perspective to account for it, would have been a necessary precursor to thinking in such a way. There is a long line of development in thought about the world, which has progressively seen it, and us, less and less as unique and more and more as just one case of a general principle. This can be seen in the move from geocentrism to heliocentrism and then to seeing our solar system as one of many and our galaxy as one of many. Or in seeing Man as unique and later as just one animal among many produced by evolution. Hardest of all, historically speaking, was probably the start of chemistry. The modern idea of elements required considerable leaps of imagination, considering that substances around us tend to be complex mixtures of compounds with no obvious connection or pattern among them. At least with astronomy you have a “clean” system, simple enough for accurate calculations and predictions, which strongly suggests some unifying principles and order must be at work.

I am so sorry, Memsahib! My elephant has been given a stern warning and will avail herself of the proper elephant waterclosets in future.

Brave (Chrome variant with Google's tracking elements removed) is my go-to browser with Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin extensions. It has a bult-in optional browser-level VPN. That works pretty well for me. Just got a new i5 Win11 laptop, W11 is a bit of a privacy nightmare in terms of MS putting ads in the new Outlook email, I'm seeing. Seeing the email-tyle ads as the last straw, I've just bought Proton VPN and email app services. It works at whole-system level and, apparently, '5 Eyes spying cartel' snooping resistant as well that US/UK are part of, so hopefully, it's up to the job at the lower level I want it.

Why do you pick on Africans? Their impact on climate change has been negligible in comparison to those accustomed to riding in modern air-conditioned automobiles.

So how do you propose persuading 2 billion women of child-bearing age that your material and spiritual comforts require the vast majority of them to forego parenthood for the next fifty years? Friendly and reasonable discussion?

Thank you all for being really specific and pedantic in your wordings. I genuinely need this to help understand with more clarity as I know words are a poor substitute for maths. I will take some time to absorb all this so I can pose questions that make more sense in terms of real physics and mathematics.

Not likely. Is it most efficient to have one type of vehicle for ALL uses? Or one type of weapon for ALL military situations? Or one type of restaurant for ALL people wanting to go out to eat?

https://apnews.com/article/uk-britain-election-sunak-starmer-conservatives-labour-0daef4ea348f58adcb889874692fa0d9

Through worldwide EDUCATION. It does seem that population is declining already in the most developed/educated nations. We need to target other areas of the globe. No living human (man, woman, boy, girl or baby) on this entire earth should ever be deprived of a modern well-maintained home, sufficent nutrition, decent clothing, electricty, clean running water, clean air, proper indoor pluimbing, Internet, necessary means of transportation, modern healthcare, a decent education, a means of making a decent living (including being a housewife) and to live free of squalor, crime, violence, unlawful drugs rodents and pests. I want to see an African bushman type society no more. It's time for those people to throw away their spears and ride in modern air-conditioned automobiles (preferably powered by green sustainable energy) too and on well-maintained paved modern African roads. I want no more elephant feces or garbage littering the streets of India.

Ok, then I will move on; thereby silencing once again a divergent point of view. You are makinig the case for me!

If reincarnation is true, I don't want to be reincarnated back into some nasty primitive society and suffer a future miserable existance. I want nothing but a utopian world to come back to in any possible future lifetimes on this planet. I, my immortal soul, got lucky enough just to be born into America this lifetime. My soul really got spoiled this lifetime. I say make the world a bowl of cherries for every living thing. Would YOU like to live as a Bushman and drink muddy water out of a puddle? Those people must smell very badly. I love the comforts of my western civilization Our future is supposed to be bringing us clean-burning vehicles anyway. One of the reason's I want our species to die down to a lower number is that so each and every person on earth can enjoy a modern vehicle without harming the environment provided clean energy one day powers them. What was the American Dream in the 1950's, I want to become the World Dream of the future. I also don't want to live in a society where folks are jammed onto subway trains like cattle. The human race would also do well to do away with those nasty nuclear weapons forever. Leonard Nimoy had a song called Highly Illogical in the 1960's. He sang Man made a mess out of planet Earth and might someday do the same to other parts of the universe with emerging space travel technology. I hope we don't mess some future planet up too like we did poor green Mother Earth.