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Yeah, leave the fox in charge of the chicken hut...

A sufficiently myopic gaze upon the history would concur with your view. Mutual destruction of opposing ideologies is the name of the game here.

We certainly should avoid getting sucked in by any charm offensive that Altman may pursue. He just wants to be up there with the top 3 richest/most influential people.

@mistermack Prison only works in physically taking pathologically dangerous people out of society. It is pretty impotent in the long term sense for less serious crimes, like persistent theft or fraud etc. Once labelled a criminal, I imagine a fair few think: " I'm fucked, might as well carry on." What is happening with this kind of thinking is that, by labelling them a criminal from the beginning, one has attacked and destroyed the whole person. What have you got left to work with? They aren't going away. The sense of being a criminal has lost it's gravitas, such that the behaviour-modifying potential of applying that label has been lost. It pervades at every level of society. The difference from the the past to now is that it's naked.

My ancestors were raped and pillaged by the French.

Cheers. How do you mean wrt timeframe?

Can't coercion be a proxy for deterministic in the sense that one can decide to act contrary to the coercive influence.

Acknowledging? You make it sound like a fact. All I see is that you've come up with a story that you like. I can't help but sense a little hubris in this subject from you when the present state of knowledge doesn't warrant it.

Holding your anal sphincter closed in company when it wants to relax.

When we depart from our instinctive programming, what are we doing?

Under the influence of an addiction, the law might as well be written in Mandarin.

Can I ask why you are so invested in this subject? It seems to be beyond intellectual curiosity.

Ranitidine, amoxicillin plus metronidazole are what discoverer of the H. pylorii cause of peptic used in his pioneering work. It has clearly continued to have efficacy over forty years later.

I agree. AFAIK, from the scientists here over the years, utility is pretty high on the list.

Yes, 4c above an ambient of 10c. One of the joys of single-planed windows was 'Jack Frost's' work on them in the 60's and 70's. My earliest memory was tiptoeing on the stones laid in grass to the toilet (outhouse) at the end of the garden and relieving my bladder on iced water. Bath times were in front of the fire in a galvanized tin bath in the winter, otherwise it was in the square ceramic sink where Mum did the washing. Kitchen was a single-paned 'conservatory' extension with red tiles laid on dirt. Fun times.,

My knowledge is very limited in this area and this thread is a lesson for me on factors to consider. I very much appreciate everyone's input.

Thanks, Seth.

And they want to make it even smaller by creating a buffer zone in Gaza from Israel.

Yes, I agree that there are strong probabilistic elements as well. When a sodium atom meets a water molecule is probabilistic, but what happens with them when they collide, it is deterministic.

I found some numbers from a heating firm on most comfortable humidity levels at given temperatures. For an outdoor temperature over 50˚F, indoor humidity levels shouldn’t exceed 50% With an outdoor temperature over 20˚F, indoor humidity levels shouldn’t exceed 40% Outdoor temperature between 10˚F and 20˚F, indoor humidity levels shouldn’t exceed 35% For an outdoor temperature between 0˚F and 10˚F, indoor humidity levels shouldn’t exceed 30% Outdoor temperature between -10˚F and 0˚F, indoor humidity levels shouldn’t exceed 25% With an outdoor temperature between -20˚F and -10˚F, indoor humidity levels shouldn’t exceed 20% Outdoor temperature at -20˚F or lower, indoor humidity levels shouldn’t exceed 15% https://lauryheating.com/ideal-home-humidity/

Imagine being by a pond with a small toy boat. You pushing the boat is your expression of freewill, but once that boat has left your hands, the deterministic, scientific forces takeover. The notion of having freewill needn't be constant. The way I look at free will: it is the ability to intercept ones mental processes that were founded elsewhere outside of cognition.

It is, but the outcome may not be what she wants. Just because you want something, doesn't mean one will realize it. That doesn't negate the free choice made beforehand.

"Someone's wrong on the internet".

"Down with antisemitism!": There is a short video of a Zionist railing on two Anti-Zionist (proper Talmud-respecting Jews) Jews in the link.