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The way I see it, you would have to do your measurements on water rather than on land because the effect you are trying to measure would be swamped by the topography of the land. On the water, you'd have to contend with waves, but an average over multiple measurements would tend to iron out that problem.

So, no examples? Agrees with you? You keep talking about science needing alternatives to materialism.

Are there any areas of science where the subjective has had success?

Yes, and I’m one of those adults who needs unicorns in order to have something not to believe in. You’re doing a great job of taking absurd to the facepalm level

Living in Maine now so yes. One of them called him wise, almost gagged. Especially because it was in reference to that raking the forest floors to stop fires from happening....

Mitch McConnell. He's been involuntarily celibate for decades.

Let’s assume we all agree. Let’s assume we write these laws. How do you enforce them and prevent the havoc from those who will inevitably ignore them? Unilateral disarmament doesn’t end well, either.

Seconded. @ImplicitDemands One really big favour you need to do for yourself bud, cut ties with those incel communities. Get out of them. They drag you down into their own crap and get you lashing outwards and inwards until you lose all respect for others and yourself. See people as people and not as means to an end. What sort of access to mental healthcare do you have where you are from? Whatever happened to you in the past wasn't your fault and you didn't deserve it. Like Iknow says though, you can't rip out the old pages but he was implying you can write happier ones in the future.

So, not a trircle ? First three episodes of The Boys S04 just dropped. Now waiting on S Stallone's Tulsa King S02. Not learning anything watching TV shows.

It brings to mind the quote from Margaret Atwood — 'Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.'

There are no school courses in social skills - nor much we would count as remedial ones (counseling, cognitive behavior therapy?) - but a lot of people could benefit from them. Assuming such skills can be understood, taught and learned.

This week, thanks to @joigus, I learned about squircles and some associated mathematics. A squircle is a shape intermediate between circle and a square. I got fascinated and then, for reasons unknown, curious about the possibility of a shape that is between a triangle and a circle. I searched and it was easy to find images but not names or mathematical definitions; "triangular squircle" is obviously not a good starting point in a search engine. But the search led me to the cool shapes generated by roulettes** and finally after some experiments the Hypotrochoid: A hypotrochoid is traced by a point attached to a circle of radius r rolling around the inside of a fixed circle of radius R, where the point is a distance d from the center of the interior circle. With parameters d=1, r=3, R=9 I get the triangular shape I was looking for: **) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roulette_(curve)

No drugs remove memories. Hiding from your trauma isn’t sustainable. Find help. Process it. Accept it. It’s part of your story and cannot be ripped out like some chapters worth of pages torn from a book.

Dawkins is one of those atheists who needs God in order to have something not to believe in

I have to post this. It's taken me 2 decades. The Humanities is a science. A 5-field science. But one of those fields is not plate Techtonics or volcanism. Asia, Europe and the Lavant, have Vesuvius, as a time marker, now there is a strange scientific marvel! (but it's not a good time marker in pre-historic studies) America has Yellowstone, as a geo-fault oddity, and as a time marker it has to be considered! (but it's not a good time marker in historic studies) It can be toasted, that the complete depiction of human history can be summed up as an extraterrestrial ELE (Extinction Level Event) which buried the earth and all its inhabitants sometime in the pre-historic time frame. It is very, very hard to tell an archaeologist that they are wrong. It is even harder to tell them that all things on earth are retroactive and repeat with nauseating repedity. But that's the science, and without some geologists help, we are going to get stuck in this timeframe a long time, and that isn't good from the looks of things. So... when are these academic professors, going to allow us backyard archaeologists to work together, to build idiotic theories of human endeavor long past discarded in strange forms of entertainment? But I can't find any other people who have been buried in volcanic debris, neither historic nor pre-historic. The mummy? I was against it from the beginning. There isn't even a timeframe in it! But when sociopaths insist on things, the rest of us tend to agree. What if there are Vesuvius type remains in N. America? Isn't it the students right to be informed in such a swayed science of like-minded individuals? Anything buried in volcanic ash turns to voclanic ash, and if you tried to save your ancestor who was buried in volcanic ash? Wouldn't the remains ultimately become broken, lost and finally discarded from moving them, touching them and trying to communicate with them? (pardon the guess) Especially, if you don't have scholarly labs, professional diggers and a large warehouse to use as a storage area. Americans are Americans. Africans are Africans. Honestly, would you tell everyone you were related to me after what you just read?!!!? Yep. I got all the above in my backyard. #42Le561 isn't an Eastern American Smithsonian number, and they haven't ever been here... I know. I have been patiently waiting... and waiting... and waiting.