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This fellow has more free time than a lot of the RW camp do. What seems to me more threat than the Gish gallopers are the info-poor who will say they have little time to follow politics, so they assign one talking head at Faux News or one scribbler at The Daily Caller as their Information Gatekeeper. They read Trump will evict freeloading illegal aliens and solve our housing shortage and that's it, they're ready to vote. Who cares if some sawdust-coated lunatic named Joe Inow stops them on the street and talks some smack about Trump? They've got their Trusted Source!

It might be easier to explain to a child that negation in math is like an inversion or flipping the number line. Multiplication is simply making an inversion one or several times. So, one inversion of minus three is -1x-3. Invert the number line and you flip minus three to three. So -3x-3 is inversion of minus three three times, and each time adds a flipped segment 3 units long, getting you to 9. This shows that positive and negative are really somewhat different in character - one just extends, the other flips.

If males with misogynistic and racist tendencies don't vote, how did we get Trump in 2016?

Ok, thanks. Just seemed odd three new members all joined within five days of each other, all lavishing reputation points on Kihara's almost every utterance, all totally focused on this one thread. All sometimes using what appear to be quotes from chatbots. Damn, maybe I'm getting too suspicious. 🙂

If they are unknown, how do you know of them and form opinions on their likelihood?

Mental illness, even more likely. Check out his previous threads on the hollow Earth and bending laser beams with your thoughts.

Just curious if MJ Kihara is gaming the reputation points function in the cosmo constant thread? Pp. 6 and 7, for example, have what seem to be less than outstanding posts receiving 2 or 3 likes, as if they're being handed out like Halloween candies. I already dislike social credit systems generally - this isn't helping.

So a Bose Einstein Condensate can exist in the hot wet noisy environment of the brain? Any evidence for Hamerof's microtubule theory? Haven't seen anything on this but conjecture and I tend towards Tegmark's objection - he determined the decoherence timescale of microtubule entanglement at brain temperatures to be on the order of femtoseconds, far too brief for neural processing.

Je suis désolé que mon français soit si mauvais. I guess, logic aside, I was given to understand (while traveling in Europe) that Americans starting out speaking in English was viewed as part of our whole aura of obnoxious entitlement. Asking if people speak English, in their country's language, is seen as a show of respect for where you are and sometimes even wins you a compliment like "Oh, are you Canadian?" (i.e. not acting entitled causes some to conclude you're not American) This phrase, of course, opens many doors for you in France: Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles.

A somewhat more balanced analysis of the issues of wildlife management and interaction with human populations. https://theconversation.com/colorado-voters-weigh-a-ban-on-hunting-mountain-lions-as-attitudes-toward-wild-predators-shift-238265#:~:text=Colorado's Proposition 127 would ban,is currently legal in Colorado. There is also, imo, a cause for concern when the pelt of the animal has a high monetary value. History has shown repeatedly that species populations can be decimated by (sometimes illegal) over- harvesting, when there's a profit incentive. Apex predator populations are quite vulnerable, in this regard. Non-lethal methods of management often better protect the species and actually reduce dangerous human-animal encounters.

Yes, especially for hunter-gatherers who might be camping next to water - a smell of decomp would be a warning of fouled water. Or finding a carcass - if it's gone off, they don't scavenge it. We came to perceive sulfur compounds like hydrogen sulfide as stinky because it indicates food unfit to eat or water not potable.

Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

My guess is Havel is pointing his pen at ideology of the type that gaslights, e.g. Stalinism, Natl Socialism, Trumpism, etc. I have to read further, but it seems like he's saying many people aren't finding real living philosophies in the slogans and aphorisms they're hearing. When he speaks of their conscience being deceived, it's likely he is not targeting, say, civil rights ideology or the human rights principles of liberal democracy generally. I will try to return to this - things be busy in the vat today.

When you use a Q-tip to clean your ear, you need to stop pushing it in when you encounter resistance. I'm sorry this advisory didn't reach you earlier!

You answer quite slowly: a girl with colitis goes by.

Reading The Power of the Powerless, by Vaclav Havel, came across this bit. "Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them. As the repository of something suprapersonal and objective, it enables people to deceive their conscience and conceal their true position and their inglorious modus vivendi, both from the world and from themselves." https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel-2011-12-23

I went to a costume party at a bar last weekend. I dressed up as a harp. When I walked into the bar, the bartender said, "Hey, what are you supposed to be?" I said, "I'm a harp." He said, " You're way to small to be a harp." I said, "Are you calling me a lyre?"

Spec thread, maybe?

I knew it! The French ARE a different species!

Wonder how many NK soldiers see this deployment as a possible way to get the hell out of NK and attempt to defect to the west.

Would humbly request our "bruh" consider dialing back the pseudo rapper talk, for purposes of reader comprehension.

Hmm. So...the boy is hiding where the house's landline is located, and that's in a place where trained personnel can't find you and no one hears the ring. I so want this joke to work, but...

Paging Abraham Wald! Note the OP article title: Religious Affiliation and Suicide Attempt. So statistically we have survivorship bias - just like with Wald's ww2 combat planes being the sample that made it back home. We have no reports from those who succeeded at offing themselves. For all we know, they did the job properly partly because they were filled with religious confidence that a better afterlife awaited them. Dead people tell no tales. Yet another skew. And this, Unaffiliated subjects were younger, less often married, less often had children... Younger, yes, as religious affiliation rises with age. Yup, "horribly" skewed was about right.

Also depends on the kind of standing. If you aren't standing at parade rest (the formal military position, quite motionless), then you can flex the calves occasionally and keep blood from pooling. I recall a standing job where I'd rise up on tiptoes - flexing the soleus and gastrocnemius periodically. It reduced fatigue and made it much more comfortable to keep standing.