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I'm taking you up on this mentioning science by its big names... I personally can't think of any valid reason why nobody has appeared in the last 100 years to fill the shoes of the Newtons, Galileos and Einsteins of yore. Being full of admiration for such people myself, I must say I don't think there's anything supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in the appearance of certain types of individuals. Those able to solve especially challenging problems that take some highest-order, highly-conceptual sorting out. Statistically, it must just happen every so and so. More frequently so the more humans are born. So why hasn't it happened? Here's a frightening idea: Newton had to take refuge in Woolsthorpe after the Great Plague of 1665, Einstein had to take refuge in America after the Nazi persecution of Jews, and Galileo suffered persecution from the Roman Inquisition due to his non-orthodox views on astronomy. Could it be that we need more... --dare I say it?-- persecution? Of course, I'm just trying to be constructively provocative. My reflective point being that there could be something about times of great strife* that brings the best of human beings and make really top-notch ideas be born. Does any of that make sense? * In a milieu that has the proper cultural seeds planted, of course.

I think if democrats hadn’t overestimated the effect of Trump’s troubles — thinking he wouldn’t be a viable candidate — and underestimate the lameness of the press, they might have tried to tie things like inflation to him. They may have held back because of the thought that they could work with republican. They need to get a LOT better at hanging blame on republicans, discard silly notions of bipartisanship, and not save republicans from any disastrous decisions they make. People will be hurt, but that’s not avoidable now, and I have no sympathy for people who voted for whatever happens (and non-voters, who sinned by omission). Ignorance, as they say, is no excuse.

Just a little bit of help here. Charmap Many of the symbols used, including the square root sign, are not available on the ordinary keyboard but can be obtained using charmap if you are using Windows (any version) In later versions just type charmap into the query box and press return. Boxes like these should open up. https://www.bing.com/search?q=charmap+symbols&form=WNSGPH&qs=SC&cvid=0f0cbd2b7805469e9dcdfe1e8cfc51c4&pq=cgarmap&cc=GB&setlang=en-GB&nclid=74D28496F4DE45C06BECB76344916980&ts=1731258460021&wsso=Moderate You can then scroll up and down. Select a particular character Copy it and paste it into your text. Extra hint It often pays to select several special characters and paste them in and add one more step Delete the ones you don't want at any one place.

I looked up both set theory and group theory wiki, bookmarked these for later reading. No, I'm not ready for that at this moment. It is just that while refreshing myself with math at basic level for some time, I noticed there must be a "counterpart" for every mathematical operation even at arithmetic level, maybe.. an example: + and -, addition and subtraction * and i, multiplication and inverse of multiplication (I called it as I do not have a formal termed word for it as far I do not know one except similar words referenced.) / and \, division and its counterpart Division and its counterpart (when I did the inverse multiplication math I realized a counterpart of division might would has inverse of multiplication and addition along with rounding up or down decimals, I called it something like, "jointion" and or denoted with a symbol like '\' while division is '/'. It would joins numbers and round up/down numbers whereas division divides to decimals if necessary. But some math I did with it didn't checked out as I encountered some errors and confusions with it.. so perhaps I still need some work with understanding my approach and conceptualizing process or something like that.)

He is talking about current Democratic Party leadership. What have Democrats done to promote unions? AFAIK the auto workers strike during the most recent election was the first time Joe Biden ever showed up on a picket line. In addition, he supported NAFTA (even though people like Ross Perot described exactly what would happen) and the failed Trans Pacific Partnership. I am only using Biden as an example because his record is far from unique amongst Democrats. Then you have the mass media, who constantly tells voters there is only 2 choices for President regardless of their qualifications or policy positions so where are voters going when they feel like one party hasn't been helping them?

MAGA supporters misunderstand how trade tariffs work so badly that many of them think tariffs are a tax paid by China. This Meidas Touch video includes a clip by YT comedian and activist Walter Masterton in which he explains to a young Trump supporter that trade tariffs are in fact a tax paid by US importers which they will then pass on to US consumers in the form of raised retail prices - which was apparently a Damascene revelation to that young entrepreneur. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI_3aZxvrEk In another clip, a US importer points out there is practically nothing you can buy on shop shelves that doesn’t contain (or rely on) raw materials and precursors imported from abroad. Everything will be affected, everything will cost more. Some of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters are said to be Gen-Z gamers who will shortly find out that gaming consoles like their beloved PS5 or Nintendo Switches will cost up to 40% more. Mark Cuban (of Shark Tank fame) has some sobering words for those who think that the economic consequences of trade tariffs won’t be happening for some time. In reality they are already happening - right now ! Quite a few business employees will shortly discover that they won’t be receiving any Xmas bonuses this December, as US importers adopt defensive positions:

Some didn’t vote. Some voted for 3rd parties. Some voted Trump. Some of Joe Biden’s voters weren’t democrats in the first place. Doesn’t matter. Just found your premise misguided.

Perhaps I should offer a translation guide in advance ? As you know I am trying to connect theory with everday experience and also keep looking back at what we have already done. Vibration, Oscillation and Wave Motion. When we talk about vibration we usually mean the whole (or most of) object or system shaking in some way. For example The reed in a reeded musical instrument such as a clarinet vibrates when you blow on it. Depending upon your skill this may produce a pleasant sound or a scratchy unpleasant sound. So there the same object or system can undergo different types or modes of vibration. Sometimes we talk about a car shuddering and shaking and vibrating as is passes over a bumpy road. This type of vibration may vary considerably in the pattern of movement as compared to the more regular and predictable pattern of the clarinet reed. Vibrations are normally subject to a 'forcing function' that makes the the object or system follow a particular pattern of vibration. And the vibration normally ceases with the ceasing of the forcing function. When we talkabout an oscillation we normally mean a much smoother more rhythmic activity such as the swinging to an fro of a pendulum. Here the same pattern of activity is repeated over and over again and called oscillation. Further, rather than a continuous forcing function being applied only a single impuls is given to start the oscillation off and perhaps subsequnet small impulses at suitable regular intervals. Remember my teach with the knotted handkerchief ? The system is then oscillating at what is known as a natural frequency and as already described this is called resonance. A particular feature of this type of activity is that the oscillation occure regularly about a mean or fixed point (think of the pendulum) Cue Mordred and his Simple Harmonic Oscillator. Now another simple harmonic oscillator is a weight suspended on a string. If we hang one such spring oscillator on a fairly taught horizontal string, it will just oscillate up and down after its initial impulse. If we hang several such oscillators on the same line, like washing on a line, and just activate one as an oscillator we will find that the up and down oscillation will spread to the other weighted springs and soon they will all be going up and down together. This is resonance in action. Now we have transferred wenergy from pour initial oscillator to its neighbour and thence to its neighbour and so on. This is a form of motion (of energy in this case) sometimes called transport of energy. Wave motion is such a tranport device and it transports energy (and sometimes mass and sometimes momentum) from place to place. Wave motion can be regarded as a series of 'coupled' oscillators hand on the impuls from one to the enxt like the washing line weighted springs. Maybe this will help with what Mordred has to tell you.

The information media are largely responsible for what's happened - and all the very shit that's going to happen. The mainstream media treated Trump as if what he said and did were normal and acceptable; they very often translated his idiotic ramblings into language that resembled policies. They let stand unchallenged many of his lies and diversions. For ten years, they gave him the spotlight he requires to flourish, out of all proportion to other candidates; even covering his rallies while in the White House. They've had an unbalanced set of standards for Trump and everyone else; a ridiculously high tolerance for his toxic rhetoric, and severe judgment of his opponents. (Some of them will regret that.) Worse, the right-wing media have co-opted all sources of 'information' to half of the country, so that the people who have been pre-primed for decades (by previous GOP candidates, by their state governments and propaganda organs) to believe the poison he spews never heard any other side. (Some of them will be richly rewarded for it.)

True master of one-liners. The one about dating cracked me up!

What do you mean by Tariffs are applied as a kind of tax on the good? Than who is suppose to pay the tax?