Phi for All

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! Moderator Note Your joke posts are, in general, becoming a waste of time and resources.

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Mine usually aren't typos, but are little annoying mistakes in precision. One that bugged me (I think it was here) was when I wrote "... burning up the oxygen" instead of "... using up the oxygen". I knew what I meant, but it was still written wrong. Wrongly. Wrongily.

Unfortunately, some of the business games he's playing require a lot more time. This renegotiation of treaties and accords simply to address bottom line monetary discrepancies is costing us orders of magnitude more power than the money can ever represent. A seat at the head of the table is priceless in terms of determining policy, and Russia, France, Germany, and China to name a few are happy to provide much needed leadership in the vacuum Trump has created. And at home, he seems happy to tie up Congress with privatized air traffic control because sabotaging healthcare isn't going so well either. His presidency seems tailored towards removing or reducing US influence globally. He's ignorant and ill-suited in too many ways to perform the job. This has been pointed out to him by many experts who understand these things, but he doubles and triples down on it, which tells me the ignorance is willful and unlikely to change while he's alive.

I think you give imagination too much credit (many people who don't know math want imagination to be more powerful). When you can think in math like Einstein (and most physicists and mathematicians), and when you have lots of prior work to build on, insights happen and critical thinking helps put them on firmer footing. Logic is a mathematical tool.

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It should be. It probably would have tanked anybody else, but the bar is set so low now that only extremism will have any effect. I honestly think his true base would forgive him for treason if he explained it as a deal too good to pass up, something that made him very wealthy personally. Ironically, the message in all this is that the skillsets for running the government and running a real estate business don't overlap in ways that benefit the country as a whole. Trump's experience in business has not translated to the office at all, imo.

Or, considering we all know what expertise brings to the table, perhaps we could structure politics so there's not so much personal advantage gained. It's out of proportion with the rest of society, and causes some of our worst abuses.

Comey strikes me as a person who learns first, decides what the right thing to do is, and then gets passionate about that, which I wish more people would do. The more unclear the question, the more careful and precise he was about answering it. But over the question of the integrity of the bureau, he's made his decision and you can hear the emotion in his voice. I can understand how a man like that was torn about the right thing to do just before the election.

That was an enormous disappointment for me. I had hoped McCain would be more on point about Trump, but the bits about Clinton sounded like he was catering to the worst of the GOP base that wants to continue stomping on her career because they're sure she's guilty of something. Integrity -1.

If they haven't seen you, you can do anything you want. You only have to pretend if they've seen you, and trust me, there's a difference between glancing around and glancing away. They will know you're pretending. It's a recognition in your eyes the other person can spot (you've seen other people pretend not to see you, and you knew right away, didn't you?). If you're an adult, you don't need to pretend anymore. If you don't have the time or desire to stop and chat, maybe they don't either. In any case, you can always say something like, "Hey, [insert Your First Name & Your Last Name], we met at [insert Place Name]. I have to keep moving, but it's good to see you again." You don't have to linger or take up much time or effort, and if they seem like they want to chat you simply reiterate your need to keep moving. Crazy schedule, juggling contest, people understand that sort of thing.

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I treat it the same way I treat drinking alcohol, or stamp collecting, or following sports teams. I'm around people who do these things without me all day long, and we get along just fine as long as they don't try to engage me in those activities. I know those things are important to others, and I know they wouldn't benefit me. Some things I've learned are outright detrimental to me but others can handle them. Other things I've learned take up far more time than they're worth (to me), and still other things that I've done just because it was expected of me. Religion happens to fall into all three categories for me.

It seems manipulated, doesn't it? You need some powerful crazy spin to keep the flow of the heart disease economy going.

It's not logic being used, it's critical thinking, it's a reasoned approach to explain what's going on in reality. I think philosophy crosses the border into why, which is outside science's jurisdiction of what/where/when/how. And as soon as you start asking why, I don't think you're doing science anymore. Would it still be science if it allowed for all the guesswork involved in why? But I also think that since science deals with the natural, religion would have to account for all its supernatural components before one could even consider the two compatible. But would it still be religion if it didn't deal with the supernatural?

1. Expired warranties.

! Moderator Note This isn't really a Speculations topic, and the title suggests the opinions sought are most likely political in nature, so I'm moving this to Politics (unless the OP starts making outrageous assertions).

It wouldn't really work that way, would it? You're looking for an average that assumes a certain amount of fasting, rather than figuring out an optimum average daily intake that is interrupted by optimum periods of fasting. It seems to me this would decrease the benefits of fasting rather than optimizing them. I don't understand the mechanism that makes a certain amount of fasting beneficial. Is it supposed to force the body to clear up the leftovers? Does not eating signal a need that the body responds to with chemical goodies to help us live longer?

... and then it still wouldn't make sense to me.

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I'm going to predict a sharp rise in internet crimes (with lots of for-profit solutions on the market), if only for the fact that one of Trump's first EOs removed laws requiring ISPs to take reasonable measures to protect client information like social security and credit card numbers. He did that even before he removed Dodd-Frank, which was a lot like tearing down the shark screen you put up to make it safe for people to get back in the water.