StringJunky

Nothing like getting personal. That's the problem with threads like this; too emotional.

i recently started reading the Japan Times online and there is this notion of 'face' in Asia that seems to be very strong and losing it might be a factor for suicide in that part of the world.

Da Vinci's other second name was Half-a-job. Most things he did were a work-in-progress. For somebody as lauded an artist as he is, there's only about 30 works surviving. The nearest thing i can find is the Codex Leicester but that's a notebook. Bill Gates bought it in '94 for $30m.

Yes, your interpretation of my intentions is correct. There is a serious disconnect about what ideology can be realised today

The point I was making was a response to Strange that there are times and places when one puts oneself at risk by the way one is attired. A dressed up person at a bar or party etc is appropriately dressed for that occasion but standing alone at a bus stop or walking home at night in that same attire may make them look out of place and, as a result, vulnerable...like a light to a moth. Rights and reality are not synonyms

i walk through a Calcutta slum like some blinged-up rapper, am I in the wrong place? is it my fault if I'm divested of everything on me, including possibly my life? "When in Rome..." . We don't live in a perfect world. We need to be pragmatic in any given moment in time and place and be alert to our environment and behave accordingly. Saying "It shouldn't be like this" are the words of naive dreamers.

OP: You can't have absolute proof in science because there must be a mechanism by which something can be shown to be wrong i.e.falsified, otherwise it's not science. If you think something is absolutely true that means you've closed your mind to alternative outcomes, if and when they arrive; preserving a degree of uncertainty by adopting this approach keeps science in a state of steady and solid progress.

OK. Cheers.

That's very interesting that they act symbiotically with each other.

Wouldn't surprise me. He's like a spaghetti western film set... all front. If he turned sideways he'd disappear.

Yes, it's suicide that is notable in Greenland; an error actually by me in terms of as a reference for the OP, your point is valid as well though if violence against the self qualifies. The suicide rate there blew my mind too. Coincidentally, I was reading about a Russian place in the Arctic Circle and this line put into perspective how harsh it is: “I always loved those winter evenings when the temperature rose to -30C, and it felt warm enough for everyone to come out for a walk on our main pedestrian street – we called it Broadway.” (my underline)

It might be more fruitful to put the other way around and ask 'Does a colder climate and reduced daylight hours reduce violence?' In Greenland, where days extend to 24hours in the summer, violence increases. Or to put it another way, look at countries that have more extreme variations in environmental conditions in terms of light and temperature throughout the year to try and see patterns. It may just be that amenable weather and daylight hours encourages a higher rate of social interactions and, hence, potential for violence.

Fancy a stroll down that rabbit-hole? The most important thing is that it is a useful descriptive for a certain condition or state.

I'm learnin'.

You are conflating space and spacetime. Space itself is just volume.

Not that long then. Cheers.

How long would it take to work through the three volumes if ones maths was up to scratch?

Interesting. Basically nature is capable of changing sex based on the prevailing needs of a group.

So, a person who tests genetically as a man but has the physiologically identical brain of a woman is a man? This is a thought experiment I'd like you to answer.

Intersex people are a fact, that have physical evidence of both genders, so why is it such a stretch to not envisage people who may not have the outer attributes of what they feel they are but are wired cognitively that way?

I've read of 3 year old boys identifying as girls and still the same by the time they are six, so I think there's a bit more to it than purely elective. One notable quote from a six year old, upon being asked how long they had felt that way: "All my life!".

So, you just arbitrarily elected to be the other gender?

Of course not, they don't exist... not for the next three years anyway.

You can read this report from the EEC Scientific Committees Report on Artificial Light

Without knowledge of the mechanics, as described mathematically, it's just air. One cannot make a meaningful scientific contribution in the 21st century... all the easy stuff has been done.