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  1. This is the "All lives matter" argument again. It's not bigoted to want the discrimination against women and BIPOC folks by white men to stop. Can you tell me how they're supposed to know how you're a "good white guy"? Did you build a toxicity meter yet? Right now, a lot of these folks have to treat all white men the same, because the consequences of misreading which are good is too steep.
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  2. I don't know about that, but I did see a thread last year on another science discussion forum where three of our old crackpots (I recognized the names but can't recall them now) were expounding on an idea one of them had stitched together with guesswork, wild hairs, and thin ice. Talk about clusterfuck! It was just those three, and they each had differing "theories" about why relativity is wrong, and none of them could explain it to the others, just like they couldn't explain it to us. It ended up looking like a word salad food fight, and the only thing they could agree on was how wrong Einstein was.
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  3. "Participants were randomly assigned to positions with unequal opportunities for success. Results showed that both winners and losers were less likely to view the outcomes as fair or attributable to skill as the level of redistribution increased, but this effect of redistribution was stronger for winners. Moreover, winners were generally more likely to believe that the game was fair, even when the playing field was most heavily tilted in their favor." https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau1156 Now imagine a player losing, even though they were dealt a stacked hand. Now imagine the dealer, halfway through the game gives all the other players the wild card the advantaged player had in their hand at the start. Experimental data shows that the player will perceive this as unfair even though the objective data unequivocally demonstrates the playing field is simply becoming probabilistically flat. The societal impact is the same. If one is white and male, and has low socioeconomic status, one is less likely to perceive the inherent advantages they have over others, as those advantages have not manifested in tangible benefit. When the playing field is evened out, it is perceived as bias against the individual not receiving benefit, because it places them at a relative disadvantage to their previous position - despite all objective evidence to the contrary.
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  4. Friendly hint: You just spent a few hours typing 4 or 5 long ranty posts where you essentially dig in your heels, move goalposts, and offer straw men and red herrings. That same time could’ve instead been used to post even one single example of the evidence you say is plentiful. Nobody has stopped you but yourself. Gosh. I wonder why that is.
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  5. Because not every disorder prevents you from successfully having offspring.
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  6. The answer to what spacetime is made of is right in front of you, but (and I don't want to hurt your feelings), there is a bunch of junk that has been dumped on top of Modern Physics (which is correct). All the stuff about superstrings, LQG and MWI is total garbage told to you by a priesthood of mathematicians who just want to control you. Modern physics, GR, SR, QM, particle physics, Standard model, are all correct. Superstrings and loops are garbage. There is a problem built into those theories that completely falsifies them. There is only one way to interpret QM and GR. You interpret them in a way that leads to a Quantum Gravity theory that, in turn, leads to warp field generators. Anything else is just shoving garbage into your brain. If you had the intelligence, you would challenge my ideas; not deduct points from me like some feckless theorist with no imagination. There is one necessary characteristic that a quantum gravity theory needs. But you physics theorists can't seem to figure it out. Even though established physics gives you lots and lots of clues. We argue. I punch holes in Loop Quantum Gravity, because I know what the "loops" should be replaced with. But you guys can't have that conversation because your Common Sense was written over with LQG mathematical bulls*** that divides by zero more times than... Look, I'm not trying to hurt your feelings. I'm just trying to help you figure out what's wrong with your quantum gravity theory. I'm starting to get the impression that this is supposed to be a science forum, but nobody here really understands Loop Quantum Gravity enough to understand what is wrong with it and how it doesn't fit with actual empirical observations. Maybe you should be emailing whoever created it and tell THEM that something doesn't add up.
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  7. But they don't eat 200x more or use up any other resource 200x more, so what does it matter. Wealth is an illusion, but still it's 'existence' used by you people on the Left in your grab for power. This type of crap is always being pushed by the Left on to a public that has hardly anyway other to interpret it than literally. And is evidence of your ignorance, and as such how you can get things terribly wrong (including your understanding of my position). For one thing 'wealth' is a virtual thing. The wealthy do not have money bins full of money or warehouses full of food and other commodities, and that's because for they would not be able to consume anymore than anyone else does if they did. And don't be surprised if it's actually the working class that eat more, waste more energy, use more consumables, than the other two classes put together. You know absolutely nothing about economics. We have a lot more now than in the fifties. How stupid can someone be? There is poverty because there is unemployment. Private enterprise employs people so can not be held responsible for unemployment, something the government by default is responsible for. Economies not functioning well is the responsibility of government and not that of private enterprise. I'd figured no one would be so stupid and arrogant that they could ignore the trends. Men getting kicked out of marriages, losing their family and homes, now losing their jobs (to women) even. Are you blind or just plain stupid. I don't make things up and anyone believing different would need to be an incredibly arrogant sack If an increase in salary worked then the salary was too low in the first place and would also need to be in line with similar enterprises. And are you saying that the disadvantage most of the world has against Chinese imports is to do with poor management and nothing to do with low wages. You've cherry picked with this and is why it made the news anyhow.
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  8. He saw what was obvious and so could hardly be wrong. And is still right today unless you are incredibly stupid or completely arrogant that is. It was the political inference that mattered anyhow. Which cancers receive the most funding. Breast cancer received the most funding by far, at $460 million, accounting for a third of all cancer-specific nonprofit revenue. Next in line—with less than half the funding of breast cancer—were leukemia ($201 million; 15% of total revenue), childhood cancers ($177 million; 13%) and lymphoma ($145 million; 11%).30 July 2019 How does overfunding get rid of the disparity between the two. If heart disease were something exclusive to women then that's where funding would be prioritized too. And, a person would have to be an arrogant sack to ignore that I'd said in the "eighties" and not now, wouldn't they? "Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer. About 1 man in 41 will die of prostate cancer". This has nothing whatsoever to do with the politicization of breast cancer funding. How arrogant and dishonest can people get. Who said it was. I'd said females were given priority when it come to medical funding. FCS can you get anything right? No, it is for you to do this and show a little bit of respect. Innocence is presumed. You should show where I'm wrong, something you have consistently failed at doing from my first post at this forum.
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