exchemist

Look up CO and tell us how the bonding works.

Hoho I get those too. They have data on us being old and hope dementia has set in, enabling them to scam us out of our saving with worthless and overpriced loft insulation projects. (They often make out there is government "survey", or new regulations to be complied with - all balls of course.) But yes indeed, they do increasingly use computer-generated voices for these cold calls. They are not (yet) very clever though, because if your responses deviate too far from the script they are expecting they cannot react. I do things like comment, conversationally, on their accent to ask what part of the country they are from. That buggers up the computer-generated scripts and makes it obvious if they are not real people. Real people usually like to tell you where they're from, I find. P.S. I recall a fake warning email about surveys, that circulated among the women in the Shell head office when I was working there. It went like this. "If a man comes to your front door and says he is doing a survey and asks to see your bum, DO NOT SHOW HIM YOUR BUM. This is a SCAM. All he wants is to see your bum. I wish I had known this yesterday, I feel so stupid and cheap."

Enough.

Look, this is the internet. We do not know who we are dealing with. You have played a devious game here, inserting chunks of AI text without telling us. People that do that kind of thing must expect to arouse a degree of suspicion.

Yeah that's why I've stopped helping. We get nothing back.

Suitably vague. Along with your IT experience, your crane driving at Chatham and all the rest.

What protest was that?

By the way, who’s the Gagool lookalike in your OP? Looks older than God’s dog.

He’s answering your question about where they get their empirical evidence. From their own machine.

No.

Ah but you are not taking into account the explanatory power of the No True Scotsman gambit. Most of these Christians, you see, are not true Christians. The true Christians are just those belonging to whichever wacky sect is making the prediction.🤪 They even have a term, “churchian”, for people who go to church but don’t subscribe exactly to the specific set of beliefs that they do. These sects are all based on the exclusionary principle ( not Pauli’s 😁) , often excluding people by defining “chosen people” in a conveniently narrow way.

I've learnt something here. I had no idea birds photosynthesise vitamin D from UV just as we do. How does that work, seeing as they are all covered with feathers? Reptiles I can understand as they have bare skin, or just scales that are presumably translucent. But birds?

Love it! 😄

Maybe the post itself has gone but not the title, for some reason.

The currently still visible “Kraken” spam post in the Maths section is a case in point. For some odd reason it’s still there after the cleanup, but one does not have permission to view it. Weird.

What? Again? Didn’t we have another of these dates just a few years ago? They pop up periodically, making a new crowd of idiots feel sheepish each time. But when you say “many” American evangelicals left their jobs and sold their possessions, how many? Not more than a couple of hundred surely?

Yeah but only by Avi "Frontal" Loeb, who has notorious form for this sort of thing.

To add a bit to @swansont ’s reply, both ships dissipate (as heat) energy at the same rate, due to the motion of their hulls relative to the water. . However in the case of the moored ship this energy comes from the current.

Well it certainly has bugger all to do with AI development. 😁

Energy of radiation, say, can be converted to the rest mass of constituents of matter, certainly. But energy on its own is meaningless.

"framework". That F word, again.

This is hopeless.

What are you are on about? What is the "Academy of Science"? Where do Galileo, Semmelweis and Tesla come into it? And what is the parallel you think you see? Stop speaking in riddles.

Why are you quoting from the Book of Lamentations (vv. 1-4) in the Old Testament (Authorised Version)? This is about the Babylonian Captivity, the period when the Jews were exiled to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. What relevance does this have to the thread topic, or to Galileo, Semmelweis or - help us - Tesla? Or is this just random botshit from your beloved Jyoti?🤪

My understanding is that the primordial nucleosynthesis involved chiefly a plasma of electrons, positrons and γ-ray photons, i.e. radiation. It makes no sense to speak of energy as if it's a free-standing entity. Elementary particles and radiation are physical entities however. As for E=mc², that simply says that energy is associated with mass. Both mass and energy are properties of some physical system or entity. You can't have a jug of mass, nor can you have a jug of energy. So when you speak of either you need to say what system or entity they are properties of.