Phi for All

You could claim the loser in every war defeated themselves.

Especially when I was using the 3/5 of a vote as evidence against waitforufo's baseless claim that white supremacy started with the Democrats in the 1880s. It's absurdly evident that counting blacks as less than whites is the goddamn definition of white supremacy. And I think he jumped on it to cover up his mistake of claiming that current Democrats are responsible for mistakes made in the past. Democrats are responsible for the holocaust, he said. We may need to atone for Cain being a Democrat in order to satisfy wfu. To condemn an entire group based on the actions of a portion of that group, especially a portion from generations ago, is hardly the act of someone interested in a middle ground.

We could live as isolated individuals and families with no rules, able to do as we please for as long as that lasts. We've instead seen the benefits of banding together in societies, the exponential growth in our own potential when we share tasks and are able to specialize. We praise the benefits, and we must also accept the responsibilities and consequences of increasing our density in our habitations. To me, not requiring vaccinations based on personal beliefs would be like letting people dump their garbage on their own property because they object to obligatory trash removal, or think it's a plot to harm them. There are instances where even the harshest Libertarian must admit that the government needs to be able to tell us what to do for everyone's safety. With this in mind, I think if you choose to live in an area dense enough for you and your kids to come into contact with other citizens, you've also chosen to abide by the laws put in place to minimize risk to all. I just wish an education that includes critical thinking was mandatory, so everyone understood the risks of disease, and people would think of non-compliance like running out into traffic instead of like defending yourself from science.

I've also heard there are proponents of cold water shaving, which seems intuitively wrong, or like something you should only have to do when conditions force it. They say the skin contracts under the cold water, which causes less irritation (less swelling due to heat?) and exposes more of the hair follicle to the razor.

Funny. Let me finish that for you. "I..." was crazy to think a party in the present could be responsible for the actions of a party from the past. Article 1 of the US Constitution claims that slaves are 3/5 of a white person. Pretty sure that's the origin of white supremacy in the US, over a hundred years earlier. Truth matters to me.

I'm a few inches over six feet, so it was a real shock visiting Europe and seeing suits of plate armor from a few hundred years ago. The folks who ate best back then were short and mostly fat.

You forgot ignorance.

Did you forget this part? Did you think I couldn't find it? Are you going to admit it, retract it, double-down on it?

Oh, we took responsibility for that one, and gave all the race-hating Democrats to Nixon when he asked for them. That's an historical fact. They've been yours for 50 years, and are especially vocal right about now. What are the Republicans going to do about them, hmm?

It's possible I misunderstood what you wrote, and I invite you to point out where. Wow. So instead you ignore any horrible thing your party does, as long as it's not as bad as the things you hold the Democrats responsible for. Democrats have a YUGE circle of responsibility, while your GOP has a little bitty circle over its head. You can't even think in terms of truth anymore, it seems.

You're moving the goalposts. You said the current party is responsible for the past party's failings. How on EARTH is today's Democratic leadership responsible for this campaign from 150 years ago? I think you're selectively broadening the definition of "responsibility" to remove all meaningfulness from it. Is Trump responsible for the Teapot Dome Scandal? I think it was Harding, but by your standards of "responsible", maybe he was.

I've mentioned it elsewhere, but I read a great analysis once about how we need to stop building hydroelectric dams in third world countries, which makes a lot of money for us, but rarely helps much with their infrastructure and jobs, and leaves the country pretty messed up. Instead, we should spend a fraction of the cost and just give every household an energy-efficient refrigerator, eliminating the need for a dam in the first place, and endearing ourselves to the populace every time they open up their new gift from the US. Maybe the same tactic could help in North Korea (South Korea makes a couple of appliances, right?), provided we looped the Kim dynasty into it somehow so they can "liberate" their own people and start moving into century 21. We can't do anything like this as long as the current administration is wearing it's MAKE KIM DEAD caps.

It's irrelevant given the context in which you brought it up. Despite who created it, the EPA is in jeopardy from the current administration for no other reason than it costs corporations money to respect the beneficial regulations it enforces, which were put into law by bi-partisan representatives of the People. To put someone in the job who isn't going to do the goddamn job and enforce those rules is yet another Republican sodomization of the constitutional procedures of our government. It's reprehensible representation, and besides screwing the People out of the work they should be doing, they're taking the pay for it as well. Way to go, party of business.

Wow, I didn't. I may be way off, but I thought rangerx had a couple decades on me. Senile incontinence jokes are probably funnier for folks south of seventy. But hey, you can say anything if you're just being honest, or it was just a joke, right?

I don't see how the current party can be responsible for the failings of those before them. Sins of the father much? Claim credit, share the responsibility for correcting your failings, and move forward. But don't take a government agency funded by the People's money and do anything less than the best its capable of. Your party shares the responsibility for the Katrina response by a FEMA purposely hobbled by the leadership at the time. It left us dangerously exposed then, and it's being done to even more agencies now. The current attitude towards truth and reality seems to be leading us into blunders we've suffered historically, and not that long ago either. Truth helps you learn.

I think intelligence builds on itself. Not sure if it's an exponential process, but I think a few inspired ideas can lead to rapid improvements. If the improvements can lead to even more inspired ideas, I think the progression to technology might happen. Is the hive mind capable of inspired ideas? I keep thinking about the steps between a chimpanzee using a twig to fish for termites, and making a belt out of grass fibers to hold his favorite termite twig so he doesn't have to make a new one every time he's hungry. Is that similar to ants climbing onto a floating leaf to cross the water?

We'd all be happier if you understood that Kennedy cutting Eisenhower's very high marginal rates back then has little to do with the situation in the present, where corporations are sitting already on record amounts of cash and lobby for further tax exemptions. Do you remember that Kennedy also raised minimum wage, unemployment benefits, and Social Security benefits, as well as increasing Eisenhower's highway construction funding? Is any of that being thought of now, between the Wall, the reduction of consumer protection, and the other efforts to raise the wealth of the most wealthy? Also, Kennedy knew the Soviets were up to no good.

I can acknowledge Eisenhower's Republican vision of the US as one of the best all-around strategies for building up the overall prosperity of a nation. Does that really mean I'm disparaging him and all Republicans by vilifying a current Republican practice? Come on, is it really that hard to accept that times have changed, and that a LOT of current GOP leadership is as far away from the Republican stances of the 70s EPA as you can get? What's different? 60 years of increasing amounts of villianaires, for one.

Create the controversy, then demand students be shown there is one. It's a bit like riling people up to commit crimes, then pointing to the rise in crime and claiming you're the only one that can help.

That sounds distinctly American. Actually, in the US they would then take the benefit and give it to the employer for hiring the disabled, so a double-whammy for the taxpayers!

Why on Earth would that matter to a damaging strategy that's obviously been developed afterward, Man of Straw?

It should be a matter of hours (3-6, iirc). There haven't been any calls for a shorter time from staff, so I doubt the Admins would have changed it purposely. The Empress of Everything has our backs on this one, and she'll sort it very soon. We like picky, and feel you should have the time to indulge in its intricacies.

And walking from the center to a corner would feel like downhill where the water pools. I understand where the Moontanman is coming from now.

Would this tend to make the water pool in the corners as the cube rotated?

Wouldn't stepping onto a wall be supported as much as the "floor" he started from? I'm not sure why there would be an uphill/downhill difference on the inside of the spinning cube. But if the cube is big enough, I think it would feel just like the torus, except the corners require a different step than a flat floor/wall, perhaps.