Phi for All

It's clear most US voters haven't even glanced at how other countries actually require their leaders to have a mapped out plan of how they will accomplish what they promise. Our politicians are mostly populists, and populists tend to represent emotions rather than ideas, so we're supposed to vote for the person rather than the plan, then trust that person to plan well. It's got to be one of the dumbest systems, shaped and crafted with billions of dollars to do exactly what it does, whatever that is. You are so right. The Republicans who live in southern Colorado and love their guns, or don't want the government to restrict what they can do on their land, have to vote for Lauren Boebert to represent those interests, so they're also voting for Christian nationalism, the destruction of democratic values, climate denial, avoiding equality issues, the stolen 2020 election, and whatever bizarre, ignorant, extremist, QAnon bullshit she thinks up. It's actually insulting to bricks to put her in the same league.

Frankly, it looks like a bunch of folks trafficking in sex with goats. The economy has taken center stage, and like most elections, folks are forgetting that Democrats grow the GDP about 1.6 times faster than Republicans, because the Republicans are better at claiming they do better with the economy. We continue to put politics into everything, 24/7/365. There's never a break from it. It's become the central hub for our Angertainment industry, which is also bleeding us dry and continuing to isolate people into ineffective little knots of resentment and pain. When the midterms are over, the next day the 2024 election starts. And as it consumes us, the process that governs us becomes more and more expensive to participate in. Crime is up, but we've always spent more to punish people than we spend to help them avoid being criminals, so that's probably just American business at work. It's also hard to stomach the supposed conservative right embracing radical elements that are probably responsible for rising crime, but it sure makes it easy to understand how it happened in Germany. Inflation is probably the biggest concern for voters, but I don't think they've listened to what economists have advised for quite a while. Many haven't figured out that putting businesspeople in political roles doesn't help the economy as much as it helps those businesspeople. Election integrity perception, thanks to TFG, is abysmal. Actually, I'll loop many Republicans into that crime as well. They continue to claim concern over voter fraud, and whine about the Constitution while actively trying to destroy the democracy it describes.

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Not at all, since Vatican City believes there is a god, but scientists know there's no free energy. Talking to thermodynamics deniers is much more frustrating. They insist there's free energy that hides itself from people inversely based on the quality of their physics education. The less you've studied, the more of it there is out there.

This is a reasonable stance, but you're assuming early scientists weren't methodical, and you're ignoring the next step. Since every possibility can't be right, a scientist must start removing the ones they know won't work from the list of all possibilities. And that's what mainstream science is, the list of remaining explanations that match experiment and observation of the natural world after millions of scientists have worked their entire lives making sure these explanations are trustworthy.

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Why give credit to gods when it was probably your doctors and whoever designed your car that truly helped you survive?

Could you talk about movement without space? Perhaps the problem is trying to think of only one part of the spacetime continuum. Three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate can describe where and when any event happens.

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You saw a joke in iNow's reply? I think over-sensitivity spoils more parties than jokes. I don't think of "success" as a spectrum, especially one that doesn't include a top end. As iNow mentions, it's all about context; the situation dictates how successful one's skills will prove to be. Success on a spectrum implies there's an overall guideline that governs us all. Is someone more successful than you because they work at a bigger company, or because they make more money, or because they own their business? I think there are some things that we work harder on because it means more to us to be successful at those things, such as a profession or a relationship. Others we can still be successful at without working as hard, such as maintaining the yard around our home. As to a minimum amount of success, it's still contextual. If it's my profession, I need to feed, clothe, and house myself and my family from the proceeds. If it's the yard around my home, there are community guidelines that tell me the minimum I have to do to be successful in compliance.

I see where you're coming from with this concept, like a bit of insurance to make sure you are covered no matter what turns out to be true, but I think you miss the point of the water itself by mixing it. These waters are supposed to represent a purification process for the believer. Mixing/blending them together makes them LESS pure, right? I think many Catholics and many Muslims might object to such a mix.

Just a different system than you're used to. I don't know how yours works, beyond primary and secondary. I've heard of sixth form? And you go to college before university?

Kindergarten through 12th grade in the US.

There's a special level of Hell where they serve drinks like that.

Right? And it would be very weird if I had several bottles of the best single malts in the world, and offered to pour you a scotch blended from a bit of all of them, wouldn't it? Almost blasphemous, really.

So it's allegedly a blend of all these waters you mention, to make it more sacred? Usually the vintage stuff is more expensive. Mystic Water sounds like the Ernest & Julio Gallo of the holy water world.

I didn't realize Islam recognized saints like the Christians do, but Judaism doesn't. Is there a process through the church to determine sainthood, similar to canonization in Christianity?

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It does benefit the family directly, since they have to deal with our ignorance less as we learn. I definitely disagree with this. Every kid is different, and some will buckle down and study their asses off if you give them a monetary reward for good grades. It IS impossible to set fair standards since "standard" is based on "typical", and as we're all seeing these days, divergent behavior isn't bad behavior, it's just different. In our efforts to be "fair", we often do the opposite and end up favoring a few with our standards, especially in our socially funded institutions.

In this scenario, are your children a necessity or a trivial pleasure? Isn't it crucial to figure out how many imaginary children you have first? Won't your imaginary spouse be angry with you for getting tricked into an instant loan?

I always gave an allowance with no strings attached, so the child can buy things they want that I don't provide, and it wasn't much fifteen years ago. Normal chores weren't tied to that allowance, because there are some duties you do just because you live with others in a house. And I always had extra work that could be done to earn more than the allowance. Does this 10 year old have a smartphone? I definitely think kids with smartphones should know how much they cost every month.

Are you saying you'll buy some of my children, or are they just collateral for a loan? 300 seems a bit low either way.

Inside a building, they make a lot of sense. I can see them being used even more now with health safety concerns. Cuts down on objects we have to touch that lots of other people had to touch.

I still don't understand. Any kind of proximity sensor is part of a security system, which can be expensive. Why lock a door, ANY door, if EVERYBODY who puts any part of their body in front of the sensor can open it? It's not that much more expensive to add some kind of RFID device like a key fob that the sensor recognizes as belonging to a resident. As to the sensor, they have a range, which in your case must be from a few inches to a few feet. You can't trigger it from farther away, and touching it may be too close. It's still weird that your building would buy an electronic lock with a sensor but not include the extra steps to secure the system. Does this door lead to a lobby area, or does it just give access to the halls and stairs?