StringJunky

If you think in a family home, there will be an exponential number of human-derived particles on every surface and in the air. You don't need physical contact to collect lots of 'samples' from other people.

I suggest mushy peas and vinegar will cure that problem.

What would he be like if he was motivated? LOL

No, I was kind of wondering aloud how much the clearly prevalent stigma in your country influences your own position. This seems to be the background 'atmosphere' you live in; we are all products of our country to an extent. I'm a child of the 60's, and I have to admit I viewed them with some suspicion until my twenties, when I started to think about social 'outliers' for myself.

Poland is not a place where I would want to be gay or other. The atmosphere is probably like Ireland was until the RC church lost majority favour with its hypocritical teachings and abuses by its priests. It's probably quite difficult to be open about ones views that contradict the official line. This was in today's Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/depression-rising-among-lgbt-people-conservative-ruled-poland-survey-finds-2021-12-08/

Sneaky, dirty fighters.

My take on this subject is that Russia was not happy when the US declared a change of military focus from them to China., hence the posturing on the Russia's borders. Ultimately, I think it is worried about NATO getting a strike advantage in a conflict by arming up in neghbouring countries. China is much more the empire-builder than Russia, I think, and has better resources to fulfill its expansionist objectives. China seems to be playing the war-by-attrition game, with constant incursions of Taiwanese airspace and island-building BS to claim stakes in geographical continuity with the artificial islands. If NATO states publicly that it has no intention of military build-up in the neighbouring countries , Russian forces will probably disperse. I feel this issue is more to do with pragmatism than ideology. China is ideologically driven, so conflict is more likely. China is trying to win by capturing inches of territory quietly, until it has it all... it is implacably and slowly wedging its way foward.

I guess bells and whistles is what sells.

If Omicron has mild effects, would that be evolutionarily beneficial or harmful for its perpetuation in the population?

Orion1 wants his work to be analyzed and shot at.... unlike many.

Fire away.

I use 'plastic' in terms of ability to be permanently deformed, and 'elastic' as the ability to reform to the original physical state.

You are banned! LOL So, what do you reckon to what's been said?

2 + 'defective'.

A man that covers his eyes cannot see...

"Co-written with Lee Perry, "Big Muff" originated when Martyn and Lee were having breakfast with Blackwell and his girlfriend Marianne with tea cups shaped like animals.[15][27] Martyn recalled: "Scratch is going, ‘Boy, look at the muff on that!’, looking at this horse. ‘Now put this with the pig, see? Now boy, this is one big muff!’ And he was going on about his big muff, and how it was going to get away with the powder puff and everything. That guy’s sense of humour is in the song. It’s silly, Jamaican silly."[27] The pair wrote the lyrics together at the breakfast table while Martyn later added the song's simplistic chords.[15] Described by critic Vivien Goldman as resembling "a new musical form, jazz-dub" -Wiki

I suppose the idea is the total number of photons that impact an area, rather than per time. I guess 1 photon could initiate harm.

When one has peace of mind.

I wasn't aware of the difference there. Cheers.

Cheers. Would it be fair to say that the distribution could be as though the variations fall on a continuum? If the continuum was expressed as a line graphically and we plotted all the points, each equating to a person, one can predict the status anywhere, and inbetween, on the line, even if it's not filled with a sample? Just because we don't have an infinite number of samples doesn't necessarily mean that the variation is not continuous. Is that logical? A rainbow looks discrete from a distance but it isn't when you look closer. E2A some more clarity and precision

If the sex and gender categories are continuums, how can one delineate them? It's like saying 'How many temperatures are there in temperature?'. It has occurred to me be, albeit belatedly, that the basic premise of the OP is incorrect.

To paraphrase something @MarkusHanke said: A model is a map of the territory, and not the territory itself. I think this thread highlights the difference between experts and novices: The more you understand nature, the more nuanced one finds it.

Yes. We have preset frameworks stored in our minds and we try to fit things to them, like the 'square peg in round hole' analogy iNow mentioned earlier.

Is a photon a wave or a particle? It depends how you measure it. Is a clownfish male or female? It depends (probably) when you measure it. You don't have any problem with the former, do you? @Endy0816 Yes, it would have added a new dimension to the movie.

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