TheVat

Blessed are the chaise makers. Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturer of furniture products.

Though he could not articulate words, AFAIK, this man came close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pétomane The US has a dismal record on collateral damage, from which it tries to distance itself, but the apologetic tone is undermined by its support of Israel.

Perhaps you could check eBay?

Every answer leads to a logical contradiction unless you change either A or D to another alternative (which is NOT 50). Then the remaining single 25% choice will become the only one that is logically consistent and ergo correct. In its present form, the Star Trek team could have used it on Norman the android in the famous I, Mudd episode. Not that I'm a fan or anything.... (other alternative answerable choices would be with two choices of 50, three choices of 75, or four choices of 100. These, obviously, would violate the basic rule of multiple choice question formats where only one choice can be correct)

Equating critcism of militant Zionism and Likud policies with antisemitism is what people do when they opt for emotional appeals over reasoned debate. You may reasonably ignore such. Not agreeing, but I can't say it is impossible that an extreme cadre within the government would try this. There is certainly an amoral element in Israeli command, just as there is in Hamas.

The search for free will in a casual matrix reminds me of searching for a vitamin you dropped on the floor, one of those elusive ones that seem to be nowhere. You check the corners, nope. In your slippers, nope. What about skittering under the door and ending up in the hallway? Nope. All that's left is panpsychism. Which goes back to Platonic idealism, Leibniz, and Russell's neutral monism. Down the rabbit hole.

I would guess such leaks tend to get fixed before they are that extreme, due to the intense odor. At low concentration, H2S is very noticeable. The whole story doesn't pass the...sniff test.

Insectageddon will be hard on some of them.

delete (misread meters as feet)(quick skimming not my best approach)

The dates are fairly precise. T. Rex began in 1967, the Crocodiles began in 2008.

Wow. If folks thought historical oppression and dispossession set up Palestinian grievances, that's all going to look like a few stubbed toes when two million people are exiled. Not that Egypt would go along with that. I would hope a majority of Israelis push their militant government for something more humane. Someone's got to say enough is enough and get beyond policies of revenge. If my family were murdered by terrorists, I wouldn't say, hey go over to their country and kill thousands of innocent civilians and children, yeah that'll fix things.

Champagne.

I am also not seeing many decisions as the sort of split-second kind, as studied by Benjamin Libet et al. Many involve a back and forth dialectic between conscious and unconscious cognition that goes on longer and is unlike, say, suddenly turning a steering wheel or politely returning a wave. And as I said earlier a brain that can produce quantum superpositions of states could potentially exert downward causation and have realtime conscious processes.

While I agree the Libet experiments support this pre-decision process, I don't think it entirely rules out downward causation (as philosophy of mind terms it). One could, after all, consciously work out how some future decisions will be handled, well before the events where the pre-conscious decision is made. So one could, hypothetically, preset a future decision by means of a downward causation act in the past. This might happen (not saying it does) if the brain, operating at a holistic level, can choose between some kind of quantum superposition. It's the weirdness that Penrose and Hamerof write about. If I am choosing in the coming week I will lean towards mushroom over pepperoni.

The problem is that the chemical propellant in the shuttle can't create the specific impulse required. The mass of fuel it can hold won't be sufficient for a lunar trip. Specific impulse is the change in momentum per unit mass for rocket fuels. It hasn't increased much in the past few decades.

The nuance I'm missing is that both sides resolve their issues with violence, and the reasons why each feels bloodshed is the only viable option.

An interesting distinction. Perhaps it is more precise to say that Eise's free will is freedom to act in accord with one's desires and wants. @Eise can order the mushroom tofu casserole because it is a choice on the menu and he wants to eat vegan today. I understand his definition but it seems to kick the question of cause farther down the road: what caused those desires and wants?

What? What does any of that have to do with restaurants and food? Or anything I said?

I think these equations of Hamas and ordinary Palestinians are typical of political rhetoric where the purpose is to draw attention away from Geneva Convention violations, as in this case the indiscriminate killing of civilians, starvation tactics, and destruction of non military targets like homes. The same rhetoric was used in WW2 to justify Dresden and Hiroshima. Nazis bad, we can kill Germans with impunity. Japanese bad, we can nuke a whole city or two. It's interesting how most people can look back at those events and condemn them, or condemn the US brutal slaughter of indigenous tribal peoples, but somehow Israel gets a special pass and anyone who questions their conduct of war or occupation is pelted with ad hominems like being an antisemite. It doesn't take a moral philosopher to understand two wrongs don't make a right. If someone had stolen my house and plowed the olive groves that five generations of my family had farmed, and did that to thousands of others around me, and drove me into a fetid slum I could not leave and which is subjected to mass murder attacks every decade or so, I might be easy prey to a political party that promised to get tough with my attackers and get my land back, and would probably not really grasp I was voting for a gang full of vicious sociopaths with a very stupid approach to negotiation . So tired of nuance-free discussions around the web where people seem to think Hamas just popped in out of nowhere and announced with a gleeful cackle, "Let's be evil and kill some innocent Jews!" Hamas and PIJ were created by the series of forcings and swindles that started with a letter written by Arthur Balfour. Was Balfour naive or foolishly optimistic or just having a feel-good moment with Britain's Jewish community? Maybe someone more knowledgeable of that history could say.

I find this nearly unintelligible. What is your goal? If you want health and fitness, don't obsess over food. Set a few boundaries and walk on. Minimize sugar and ultraprocessed foods whose ingredients list looks like a list of chemicals you don't have in your kitchen. Embrace fiber. Avoid foods that contain the word "isolate." (eating an isolate is like taking vitamin A pills instead of having a carrot or sweet potato)

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.21290 The expanded M. caudofemoralis of Tyrannosaurus may have evolved as compensation for the animal's immense size. Because the M. caudofemoralis is the primary hind limb retractor, large M. caudofemoralis masses and the resulting contractile force and torque estimates presented here indicate a sizable investment in locomotive muscle among theropods with a range of body sizes and give new evidence in favor of greater athleticism, in terms of overall cursoriality, balance, and turning agility. (cursoriality = ability to run)

The big muscular tail was designed so it could run easily and swiftly. On land. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101115131127.htm

If their legs are so strong, as you said, then why is a dry land lifestyle implausible?

I was not saying our actions are not part of a causal web, just trying to make clear why the common usage of "free will" is one that ascribes a particular kind of agency to humans for which there is no evidence. The compatibilist definition is, as you know, quite distinctly different. Compatibilists achieve their reconciliation of determinism and free will by means of changing what is meant by free will. I just find it simpler to skip that and say there is no scientific evidence of free will in the classic meaning. It doesn't mean I may not personally entertain some metaphysical idea that minds somehow transcend that, but I would not bring that to the science table.

You don't need a costume to post in Biology. For physics, an Einstein wig is preferred, but you can also just carry around bongo drums like Richard Feynman. Is there any evidence for an amphibious T Rex?