Phi for All

I get it. That's a great answer for why many don't believe. Attribute all the wonderful things about us to god(s), and claim the evil that's left is pure human. What a horrible, spirit-deflating, anti-human outlook!

I think you've fallen to preaching. This doesn't seem to be a legitimate response to why someone doesn't believe. Perhaps we're done here?

We've determined that evidence is one of the best benchmarks of science, and provides the perfect way to make sure discussions are rigorous rather than simply chatting about someone's sloppy, wild-ass guesswork.

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I'm hoping for a big Archie Bunker effect to move folks in that direction. 99% of us know something has to change, so hopefully enough people will see him as the antithesis of what we want to become. I have to admit that it would be interesting to see if Congress based a no-confidence declaration on his connections to Russia, or if they'd go after his obvious shortcomings with... most everything. Could Congress make the case that he's a victim of Dunning-Kruger effect on a level never seen before?

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Wouldn't that seem more like a coup to his supporters, like The Swamp Strikes Back? I don't think his supporters care much for "the majority around him", and would not support a vote of no confidence. With impeachment there is a chance hard evidence will at least be appraised by supporters and detractors alike (but without an objective media, I guess it makes little difference).

What I came away with from one of the Schwartz interviews was that it was like pulling teeth trying to get time to discuss the book. Trump wouldn't do what Schwartz wanted, which was to give him some big chunks of time where he could grill him on content. Instead, Trump made him come to the office every week and wait for a few minutes of Trump's time. Schwartz said Trump had the attention span of a toddler, and could rarely give him more than a few minutes before growing bored. And when Schwartz eventually pitched the idea of listening in on D's daily business, he also learned about D's lying habits.

We already have the infrastructure for manufacturing these appliances. The demand for DC versions is low now, so the prices are high. With more demand for DC and less for AC, it should flip at some point. Right now a DC refrigerator can cost the consumer three times the price of AC.

Cost of the units will come down with demand. While some appliances like refrigerators are about equal in energy use and efficiency between AC and DC, many of the appliances that don't need power until we actually use them will save a tremendous amount of energy. Trickle usage nationwide would go way down. So now imagine that the concept of individual power is thought of more like home heating, rather than like shared plumbing for water. Everyone tapping wells on their property for water wouldn't work, but we heat our homes by both shared heating pipes in apartments and individual furnaces in private homes. Imagine if Tesla's work had spawned a desire for small generators capable of powering electrical appliances for a single home, or block of apartments, or perhaps a neighborhood unit of multiple private homes. I think if we'd suspected, in Tesla and Edison's time, how much we'd depend on electricity every day, we might have been more protective of the ability to create our own.

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It's more than just Betamax vs VCR marketing. DC current has its advantages. AC has a lot of versatility, but only when considered as a grid. It's actually pretty difficult/costly to match the phase between grids. If you don't have a grid in the first place, a lot of the advantages disappear. Transforming voltage up and down more easily is still one of ACs big advantages, but lower voltage requirements, less danger, and longer appliance life are very tempting. But my real point was more of a mindset. What if the right to control energy utilization personally had become as important to many as the right to bear arms? I would argue that perhaps, in the modern US, being in control of the power sources that run virtually everything important in your life is much more important than having guns to defend yourself. Or perhaps we need the guns because others can shut off our power?

One could argue that Tesla's alternating current placed us all at the mercy of utility companies we may or may not have control over. I've often wondered how our society would have developed if personal direct current power sources had been chosen instead. Would single home/neighborhood generators have led us more quickly to alternative energy sources like solar? Imagine thinking about your energy not in terms of a grid, but more as a system piece like your furnace, a major part of your house that needs occasional maintenance, perhaps replacement every decade or two.

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My wife has relatives who claim to be South Polish.

All learning is like this. Tiny layers of understanding building to form a more comprehensive whole. How can we know which bits led to our most profound realizations? If we look instead at a sensory mechanism like hearing or smell, and the much larger layer of detail and understanding you would miss without it, we can more easily see how important it all is.

And you'd probably heard the joke about the guy who wandered into the ladies and wondered what the ATR button did....

A buddy of mine has a new toilet with something that increases the flush power, but it starts out with this terrible hiss, like it's a tiny nozzle trying to force too large a flow. It scares the hell out of you. The first time I stood in front of it and flushed, I hadn't quite finished, so I found out what aiming and being startled simultaneously was all about. Not good if you want to be invited back. I've never sat on his toilet, but it makes me wonder now if the water isn't being aerosolized somehow to make it more efficient in flushing, with the inadvertent effect of causing plumes.

And that's the real point. If you're seated, you're making the water even worse by definition. Having that water touch any part of you once it's fouled is NOT desirable. Perhaps some authoritative letters pointing out the public health risks of not using elongated toilet bowls would persuade local councils of the merits of changing building codes to ensure new construction is elephant-friendly. Any male councilmembers enthusiastically voting for such a measure might gain a reputation for their huge commitment to civic doody.

It makes it difficult to avoid the humor when you lob these taters across the plate.

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Water levels could probably be adjusted. I wonder if the front design isn't to facilitate flushing? Perhaps if the bowl is deeper in front the water doesn't swirl correctly, or might splash up, or take a significantly greater amount of water. There's also the "sticky" factor to think of. The design attempts to minimize any waste that sticks to the porcelain, and a deeper front may not have as pleasing a result. There has to be a factor we aren't considering. In my experience, when men want something fixed, it gets fixed, especially if it's something they use a lot, and doubly especially if it involves their penis and its wellbeing. If a woman wants something fixed and can't do it herself, she needs to convince the men somehow that they want it fixed too.

Supercooling was my first thought, but I thought the water had to be fairly pure to prevent the nucleation of ice crystals.

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