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J.C.MacSwell

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  1. I wasn't. I was questioning your claim that she supports Nazis. If she's been accused of that, it's fair to ask the context. She is obviously conservative. It's not uncommon to hear accusations like that from those that simply don't like other's opinions. Sometimes it might be a fair statement, but too often it isn't. Or she could be using a reference to Hitler or Nazis to get attention (generally an unwise and/or very suspect thing to do, but it falls short of supporting Hitler or what Nazis stand for)
  2. In particular (pardon the pun but not bolding for that reason), I would say any body experiencing CMBR anisotropy would experience drag forces (Without looking it up I'm guessing to the square of the speed wrt to CMBR isotropy but please correct me if I'm off the mark) Deep space, what constitutes greater drag, CMBR photons or other particles assuming average (deep space) distribution? Except you lose mass emitting the light (conservation of momentum and all)
  3. A third is that Chauvin knew what he was doing, and the other 3 believed he was "simply" torturing Floyd, as per playbook.
  4. 20 years after he "died" he became the POTUS....
  5. If a body is in equilibrium, it's in equilibrium in every (inertial) reference frame. It can't be at rest in every frame. But it's always at rest in some frame. So to answer think of a body at rest but not in equilibrium...every body not in equilibrium is an example...
  6. Lincoln was certainly an abolitionist, but when he first abolished slavery in 1862 it was essentially a war tactic. States that still had slavery but were not rebelling were exempt from it. Though I think it's fair to say Donald still has a little way to go before he passes Abe...except perhaps in his own mind.
  7. What instant do you believe equilibrium exists for the bat and ball? (I don't think it's a single instant when or as you think it is)
  8. What you described can benefit employers over employees, and it is more common that the employers are white and employees minority than the other way around. Does that make it part of systemic racism? (not that you made that claim, but you certainly have stated it as a racial issue) Or is it simply where people have an imbalance of power over others, regardless of ethnicity?
  9. Just 5% carry guns? Only 1 in 20? Those cops must simply be inherently bad...why can't they just be brave like your average friendly neighbourhood looter?
  10. It would justify an emotional state. Training would hopefully mitigate an emotionally driven response. But I think MigL's point is that American cops require a more defensive/adversarial attitude generally to survive. Assuming that's true you will likely have more outliers like Derek Chauvin than you would expect in a country with less guns.
  11. I did, but still wasn't sure that was what was being reffered to. I thought it might refer to something already discussed in the thread.
  12. Yet often a bad motive, or intent, is assumed, simply because the conclusions don't match one's own.
  13. More likely he might find a forum that, regrettably, would agree with some of his base assumptions and not challenge him on them. He's not arguing in bad faith IMO.
  14. Going by the rhetoric commonly espoused by political leaders probably 30%, but let's say it's half of that, 15% of those forming an opinion, and rising every time the rhetoric on one side gets repeated. (with the other side views getting polarized similarly as a result and with most willing to say anything mostly talking past each other With respect to accuracy? Probably not. With respect to emotion? Definitely not. Agree. The hard part is how best to proceed.
  15. +1 for the thread idea. How about a default setting for when an occupied car reaches X degrees all of the electric windows open? (saving your pitbull from overheating and releasing him to ravage 83 year old grandmas in the parking area)
  16. The problem is that for too many it becomes "all arm bones matter", and the focus becomes too often on healthy arm bones along with broken arm bones. All broken bones matter is more accurate, but of course that is, too often again, not the goal.
  17. Do you think your average rioter lacks these things?
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