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Also "nature" is known for harshness, once an entity is no longer among "the fittest", it dies and is gone.. OTOH "god" keeps a person (not sure if it applies to dogs and amoebae) around forever in some form or another.

Apparently, I am not smart enough to see the analogy. It seems more like the other way around since you are the one making extraordinary claims and in need of defense.

And all I did was ask for a single example of "god did it" being the conclusion with the most evidence behind it....

Until you prove the existence of god, I don't see how this would ever be true. AFAIK science is supposed to be based on the best available evidence, can you give any examples of "god did it" being that best evidence?

AFAIK Communism doesn't take religion into account, that would be Marxism which uses a communist economy as part of broader social structure...

Since there is still an electoral college, I think Trump will win. It seems like he has rural America pretty much locked up and those places wield more power in a Presidential election than do urban ones. Virtually everyone I know who is a Trump supporter complains about the high price of gas, groceries and rent (the fact that inflation was lower in the US than in most of the rest of the world is irrelevant) and immigration (one of the good ole bogeymen-these lesser humans are coming to take away your livelihood and change your way of life). While both sides seem willing to take steps that are likely to be completely inadequate for the mass migration event that is just beginning and is likely to only grow in the coming decades, neither wants to talk about the root causes of either. Like, how come at the peak of the oil crisis in the 70's, when gas was being "rationed", the price of a barrel of oil went above $150 but gas never approached $3/gallon (most places it was still <$1) yet today, when the price of a barrel of oil is less then half the peak of 50 years ago there are few places you can get gas for (not much) under $3. Or, how much does allowing corporate entities to buy up massive quantities of residential and agricultural real estate affect rents or ability of the average person to buy a home?

Maybe a dual use sign, just white out "Donald" after the election?

Reminds me of the Yippies campaign for "Nobody for President". Every campaign rally was a great success because nobody showed up and spoke at all of them.

Why is judging necessarily placing oneself above another? I don't want to speak for Phi but I suspect they would expect to be banned themselves for doing the things others get banned for...

Or old enough to just not care about being caught.

Pressure only affects the boiling point of any (that I am aware of) fluid, the steam will be hotter than 100C but it will still be saturated and not superheated because the water's boiling point will also be that much hotter.

Hard to believe, but Walz is the same age as Harris.

True but the rate at which the system tries to reach that equilibrium is pretty rapid so someone would have to show me it is possible to remove or measure any superheated steam before it returns (for all practical purpose, anyway) to the same temperature as the water it is in contact with.

According to Wikipedia (and engineering schooling I went through many years ago) you have to remove the steam from contact with the water in order keep it superheated (i.e. raise its temperature above the boiling point) beyond a very brief time. I would think any heating above the boiling point will be undetectable by ordinary thermometers by the time you opened the door and tried to measure it. "Superheated steam and liquid water cannot coexist under thermodynamic equilibrium, as any additional heat simply evaporates more water and the steam will become saturated steam. However, this restriction may be violated temporarily in dynamic (non-equilibrium) situations. To produce superheated steam in a power plant or for processes (such as drying paper) the saturated steam drawn from a boiler is passed through a separate heating device (a superheater) which transfers additional heat to the steam by contact or by radiation" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheated_steam

One of my first jobs was molding plastics at a place called Chemcut. We made machines that cut metal with acid instead of with machine tools. The basic process is to coat the metal with something that is acid resistant but breaks down under UV light. You then cover the metal with a negative of the piece you want and bombard it with UV light then run it through an acid bath that eats away all of the metal under the broken down chemical. I know at least 2 watchmakers had bought the machines because hundreds or even thousands of gears or other small parts could be manufactured at once in a relatively short time.

Water is also good for plants but it is quite possible to overwater most of them.

Do you not realize the "average" person can't afford to even buy a plane ticket to fly? The "average" person in the US and a few other places in the world might afford it but not the majority of the people on the planet.

According to "The Daily Show", "Trump partnering with god to sell bibles can only mean one thing; soon god will be bankrupt and sentenced to 3 years in jail." 😀

Not only that, The Donald now wants 5% of any funds raised by candidates using his name or likeness... https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-republican-campaigns-fundraising-name-face-5-percent-2024-4?op=1

How is it possible to hate something that you believe doesn't even exist?

I would quibble slightly with this, in that there is also the matter of surviving long enough to actually reproduce, although I think high reproduction rates definitely are a major positive contributor to a species survival in most cases.

What I have read about platinum catalyst substitutes is in regard to fuel cells so not sure how any would work for what you are asking about but "they" are coming up with them. The problem is, I don't see ATM how a hunk of nickel encased in a sheath of nitrogen doped carbon fiber like this, https://engineering.wisc.edu/news/not-so-precious-new-discovery-could-replace-expensive-platinum-in-hydrogen-fuel-cells/ , would be any easier to get than the platinum.

It is surprising to me that the insurance industry hasn't managed to kill DST yet. Whether the actual figure is 20% or not outside of Saskatchewan, the trend does seem pretty universal. https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/risk-management/news/daylight-saving-time-sparks-20-surge-in-claims-46791.aspx "In fact, collision data from 2014 shows a marked 20 per cent surge in claims in the days after the time change."

In 1970 we never put a tap in our maple trees before the first week of March and rarely missed any significant sap run. These days if you aren't tapped by mid-February, you missed or are missing the first hard run and even then you may have missed earlier ones that season, something that I don't remember ever happening prior to the last couple of decades.