StringJunky

The emphasis, to me, in the public sphere is material reparations are the remedy when the issues are of a more intangible systemic nature. E2A Material things are what everybody understands and can relate to intuitively.

It's not peripheral;, it's front and centre... evolution, not revolution. You don't fix these things in 10 years, try fifty from now. Small steps. Apply strawmen correctly. Well, this is half the problem, why things aren't getting done... beating on about events that are not even in most adults memories. People just go, like me "Yeah, ok". "Fuck off".... in my mind. Nothing gets done. And here we are. Do you fancy bouncing some more echoes at me?

Fine. You've got evidence, tangible stuff. You know, documented. Dealing with individual's or even families issues... not class actions for every perceived unquantifiable historical slight, which is what some of you seem to be promoting. The people alive today are wholly naive about their long-gone ancestors experiences imo. If they are alive today and they lived in that time, then obviously their experience counts.

Yes, these are people whose problems we can address. Address their problems of today, not half a century ago, a century ago etc. The long term cure is to get more ethnic representation where it is absent, so that their representative can present their case and with a better chance of being treated equally. I read an interesting article on immigration where the problem seemed to be inadequate political represention in the seat of power in the immigrant's country of choice. The article was about Palestinian representation in the US Congress relative to the Israelis. The Israelis are represented by hundreds of Pro-Israel lobbyists and hundreds of millions sitting in Israel biased/friendly US institutions. Relatively, the Palestinians have very little in that direction and are beholden to essentially unpredictable charitable whims by benefactors. you can't run a concerted political campaign on inconsistently applied charity. Israel has more than enough grease to get access to. US politicians. I think here needs to be a fundamental rethink about lobbying protocols in Congress and limiting how much facetime and 'grease' they are allowed to apply to the upper and lower house members. Political parties are limited in how much can be spent towards an election. This is a prime candidate for applying the same standards of conduct. I think it is antithetical to the principle of a fair democracy that those with means can completely override those less fortunate. Sound familiar?

'Reparations' - it's as vague 'woke'. Until you put meat on the bones and put numbers on it, it's just air. You can't fix spilt milk, you can only wipe it up and figure out why it happened. The milk has gone, just like all those historical slaves, Jim Crows victims are dead... kaput. their experience cannot be felt by people alive today in the US. As I said to a court head bailiff once, chasing him for debt: " Am I responsible for my brothers actions?" "Of course not" That was the end of that. It is reminiscent of what some countries routinely do, chasing a family member instead of chasing the person that's absconded/committed crimes. These are generally authoritarian regimes.

He's got a busy 2024 in court. Politico: Cue back-flip:

Sycophancy is the rule in the GOP. They are all wearing brown clown noses.

"Infamy! Infamy! They've got it in for me!" - Carry on Cleo 1964

https://www.reuters.com/science/scientists-expand-search-signs-intelligent-alien-life-2023-05-31/

I read in Reuters yesterday a project is starting to zoom in a small patch of our galaxy to look for deliberate signals. Interestingly, it said we don't consciously send out signals as a beacon to other worlds because we don't know if their intentions are friendly or not.

Of course, no probs.

On Earth we have millions of datapoints of all species classes and we can find out how common high intelligence is paired with low metabolism. I think we can reasonably extrapolate that to other worlds.

Could you name a slow-metabolizing, intelligent organism on this planet? The two states are energetically at odds.

the start point for everything was 13.7B years ago. It's taken 13.7billion to get where we are today in development. If you assert a slower-metabolizing organism, it's evolutionary progress will likely be much slower than ours. Basically, the idea doesn't parse for me.

If their metabolism is extremely retarded relative to us, then they will not be developed as us. Would they?

Definitely, especially things of this nature. Until people can find a way around c, it's not happening... in my limited knowledge. That doesn't mean they aren't 'there', but it does mean they aren't likely to be in detectable proximity. Is that a reasonable position?

@Saber Purposeful evolution is 'teleologically-driven evolution, which is a form of religious-type creationism by a supernatural actor.

There's too many people that arbitrarily believe in alien-occupied ET UFO's. The confirming evidence needs to be solid.

'Evolution is a blind watchmaker' is often used to describe the evolutionary process. Everything new is a complete accident and is the result of a genetic mutation. If it works it stays and if it breaks it's gone. Reproductive fecundity and pure luck in the environment determine what features persist.

As annoying as we are, we believe what we think with the full clarity and openess to personal limits as you do. Some peoples thoughts seem to emanate from a pure theatre of uncluttered thoughts, where things are things related according to the natural laws. The other viewpoint is taken from standing in the mess and taking it from there. One is idealistic and one is pragmatic.

OK. Ta.

The WF describes the probability distribution of finding quanta/field excitations in a particular position. If you want more detail quantumphysicslady breaks it down quite simplistically. https://quantumphysicslady.org/glossary/wave-function/

It might give an edge in close range urban type warfare where radars are not practical and sight prevails as the primary mode of detection.

QFT. This is the essence of why the scientific method works; independent rebuttal or verification.