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This is classic Republican strategy. If the EPA makes your businesses jump through hoops just to protect citizens, put someone in there who will mess it up good. Same with Education, same with FEMA (remember Katrina?), same with all the watchdog agencies that are there to protect us against just such people and tactics. I've worked with facilities that manufacture medical diagnostic equipment. All of them have to meet an enormous amount of regulations to satisfy FDA that their products meet federal requirements. And while all of them bitch about it, I never heard a single one of them say that NOT doing it would be better. It would be less work for them, but they all seemed to understand that their products are successful BECAUSE they're held to such high standards. In fact, in some areas like disposables, they worked to exceed the federal requirements just so they could brag about it. The villianaires that are trying to hobble our government aren't interested in fairness, they're interested in more profit. I hate this strategy even more than when Bush II implemented because it also weakens us in EXACTLY the way Putin/Russia benefits most from, which I'm sure is just coincidence. The conservative fears going around the world are aiding the Russians in keeping allies apart and isolating strong countries like the US and Germany. We're in trouble, and Trump is giving away or spoiling most of our best relationships while he pits his base against the rest of the citizenry IN HIS OWN COUNTRY. He's the greatest American Russia has ever produced, or he's doing a top-shelf imitation of it.

I remember you. I don't remember the venom or getting under people's skin, so you must have done a fairly good job of being your ideal person. Almost a thousand posts for that persona.

The best thing about that book is that it inspired you to go back to your studies. Now you should put it back on the shelf because it's a popular view of physics (and not a very good one at that, from the professional reviews) that is pogo-jumping around a bunch of concepts you need to understand in a more formal setting. Science knowledge is a layered process, and you often need a good base in one area before you can really grasp another. Congratulations on going back for your degree, and on finding inspiration in science. Trust me, learning it the right way will keep you from spending any more time spinning your wheels. Welcome to the forum.

I never mentioned you once, on purpose. This isn't a subjective argument. These are my words, bro. Lose your defensive filter, since this isn't about you, it's about your ideas. I meant that if we look for "answers" or "proof", when we think we've found them we stop looking any further. That's a big part of why science works with theory instead, so it's constantly refreshed, tested, and updated. Sorry I wasn't clearer.

Most rifles and some handguns fire bullets that do (1100+ feet per second is usually a supersonic round), but bullets are small compared to aircraft. A big fighter jet breaking the sound barrier is creating big shock waves, and thus a big sonic boom is heard. A little bullet goes *crack!* because its shock waves are little. A shotgun fires a bunch of even smaller pellets, which are normally subsonic (don't break the sound barrier). It still makes a big *boom* though, even louder than the rifle or handgun. That's the rapidly expanding gases meeting the air that can't compress or get out of the way fast enough.

Congratulations! Remember, you only need to situate the things you'll use until the baby can unstrap her/himself from the bouncy seat. Those months will be your basic training, and the challenges most likely won't outpace your experience. Once the child is mobile, however, they will knock over every thing you've situated and you'll need a completely new plan. Think of us as a Retreat for Reason, and welcome.

! Moderator Note This attitude is inconsistent with our science discussion forum. You have an understanding problem with mainstream science, and in order to discuss it with you, you can't exclude information that might bring clarity to your understanding. That isn't how real life works, and it's certainly not how science works. It's hard for most of the members who engage in discussion with you to understand why current science seems like so much magic to you. You have over 200 posts questioning basic physics and it still seems like you're fairly willful about "not getting it". Still, others are trying to help. So you will answer questions put to you, or your threads will get closed. That's pretty easy, it's in the rules. The rest is becoming less and less up to you. Your posts are being reported more and more for their abuse of reason. A change of strategy is recommended.

I'll keep it short since it sounds like you aren't going to listen anyway. Science works with theory rather than proof because we stop looking when we think we've found answers, but we constantly have to keep updating theory to give us our best current explanations about phenomena in nature. It's this constant testing and re-testing against what's known that keeps science from being hidebound and dictatorial.

You can't live with this outlook on death. Destroying an ant MUST have different consequences than destroying a human. If the chickens were burnt alive, I consider that unnecessarily cruel and unusual, and it would be criminal in much of the world. If they were killed humanely and then burned, it might have been for medical reasons. If they were burned just to get rid of them, I think that's a waste of good chicken. For me, intent is the key. Killing should never involve more suffering than necessary, and nobody should enjoy suffering even a little bit.

! Moderator Note Wow, science discussion site! We're going to need some reasoned arguments from you if you want to post anywhere, doubly so when you're making blanket assertions like this. This thread isn't good enough, amigo. Try again.

Actually, the sonic boom sound a supersonic bullet makes is kind of a high-pitched cracking noise, like a really dense twig snapping under pressure. The big loud boom a gun makes is all those expanding gases that come out the barrel colliding with air that can't get out of the way fast enough. That's why a silencer on the end of the barrel works, and why it doesn't silence the crack of the mini sonic boom the bullet makes (although it does muffle the boom of the gases, which are also traveling supersonically).

If you substitute most other common pursuits for "wealth", there is usually an altruism present that makes the "aggressive pursuit" more like persistence on a virtuous quest. Most of us aren't consumed by greed; we'd like to have just enough money so that money isn't a worry. We know great wealth isn't what makes most people happy. But some are obsessed with making money the same way all of us can be obsessed with things we're good at. For them, wealth is a treasure hunt they will win no matter what. And since personal wealth is such an influential metric in our society, we need to be extra vigilant about not letting the extremists get hold of our leadership processes and manipulate them with the extra money they've taken from those below them with their "no matter what" tactics. The middle ground also represents the foundation of the structure these extremists demand to sit atop.

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Just not frequently enough for some of us, based on us supposedly being great and all.

! Moderator Note Topic title changed from "Evolution" to "Development", to avoid misconceptions with a well-defined concept. Also, science isn't a quest for "answers" so much as "best current explanations". Welcome to SFN, and the Speculations section. Try to support your concepts with evidence where possible. The goal is to treat them as ideas rather than guesswork, and evidence is the key to that. I wanted to step in before the inevitable calls for clarity.

I'm not sure most women would want to live longer if their husbands thought in terms like these. Are you trying to maximize mileage, or something?

! Moderator Note No more of these Begging the Question type threads. You make an assumption without backing it up, and we're not going to base a discussion on a fallacy. If you think this is going on, show some evidence in your next OP. Otherwise we're not taking this seriously.

Good post, and I basically agree. I think you and I had it much better due to circumstances of birth, and that's one reason we thought life was great and we were able to flourish. Many didn't get the opportunities we did, and so we both know the system has not been fair and evenly administered to include "people due to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender status, religion, or national origin". One part that's open to interpretation is "all we really need is a growing economy". To me, I can't get around having middle class wages decoupled from productivity. It's like trying to complete an underfunded project, or put a puzzle together when you're missing a third of the pieces. Your "reasonable effort" to materially improve one's life becomes unreasonable at that point, because the workers have provided the work, and they have maintained the productivity that the company needs to flourish, but they aren't being paid the wage rates they had before the Nixon administration. Since their money now goes to the top 1%, I don't think you're ever going to see "acquiring and maintaining a middle class life style" as achievable as it should be for such a prosperous nation. And don't forget that letting the billionaires decide how ALL OUR PUBLIC FUNDS are spent has gotten us to our present predicament, where reasonable actions like the ones you suggest are being opposed left AND right. We should all be wiser now, and not fall for the whole deregulate-the-banks-and-all-will-be-well scam. Didn't we have some economic problems over this recently?

"Scientific proof" is like "iridium glider" or "library tuba" or "poisoned vitamins". If you're looking for any of these things, you're missing the point completely.

Could it be something as simple as having accidentally toggled "Audio: OFF"? That's what it sounds like, since neither the disks nor the machine have changed. The previews and the merchandizing would still be aurally active, but the movie sound wouldn't play.

The Kim regime has been urging farmers to use human feces for fertilizer for a few years now. The propaganda seems to have taken hold and it's described as the best thing for growing crops.

Puerto Rico agrees. Black athletes agree. The anti-fascist movement agrees.

Don't forget the fact that he hasn't paid taxes since the Carter administration. His goal his whole life has been to avoid paying his fair share towards a system that has helped him maintain great wealth. Unless anyone is foolish enough to believe Trump could have succeeded without all the underhandedness. Maybe that's why truth doesn't matter anymore. Too many folks gave up on being good people because the bad ones were getting everything.

Besides approving of a through-the-teeth liar because he's also a salesman (and gosh, thanks for assuming all salesmen lie), I don't understand the whole "We need a ruthless businessman as our leader" mentality. I can only imagine that Trump supporters are no different than the rest of us, and have at one point or another been totally screwed over by a ruthless business practice. It's insane to wish that upon our fellow citizens. This isn't like hiring the toughest lawyer to defend you in court. Trump is lying to the people who put him in office like the ruthless, care-only-for-the-deal businessman who has screwed over everybody at least once in their lives. Whether it was the insurance company who denied your mother's claim, or the contractor who took your money and ran, or the private company who promised clean drinking water for your community but gave you lead poisoning instead, or the corporate raider who bought the company you sweat your life for so they could sell it for parts, or the company who raised the price of the medication you need to survive by a couple of orders of magnitude, we've all been victims of the ruthless businessman/Trump mindset. The experiences were horrible, life-wrenching, and abominable. They kept our potential diminished, and reduced our overall happiness. And now a guy who lives to be ruthless is our leader. He's helping the uber-rich lean even more on the pool table to ensure they'll win... everything, I guess. What they have now is not enough, and I think they understand that folks like tar will believe and support them in their ruthlessness. There is no middle ground. It's the villiainaire's game (billionaire villains), and they ABSOLUTELY need you to stay and play it, but they don't actually want you to do very well. Especially if your not white and not grateful.

https://kvond.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/how-mental-systems-believe.pdf Daniel T. Gilbert from the U of Austin wrote about how belief in a mental system works, and apparently our minds MUST start out accepting a lie in order to then dispute it. If you don't do the required checking of what people say for veracity, you're automatically inclined to believe the lie. When someone lies almost constantly about everything, with no filters on whether it's a big lie (black people are overwhelmingly responsible for white murders) or a small one (Walt Disney painted the tiles in Trump's bathroom), people listening are overloaded and their brains stop questioning the lies. I think Trump knows this very well. Putin does.