StringJunky

Van Gogh. He used colour to express emotions evoked by his subjects, rather than try to represent them verbatim.

Art is a means isolating elements of our experience and perception for the purpose of sharing it.

I've just installed Firefox and uBlock Origin on my Android tablet. There is no ads on this site after installing uBlock, which there was before I added uBlock.... yuk! In Firefox on Android if you click the 3 dots top right, select Extensions, then uBlock Origin you will see an 'Element Zapper'. Click on that, which will return you to the errant page and try clicking on the obstruction. See what happens. I don't have the issue, so can't replicate it. On PC, with uBlock Origin installed, if you right-click on the enshittification you should see a 'Block Element' entry. Click on that, then click on 'Create'. That will make an entry in the block list for that element. Don't be afraid to try the other blocking options in Settings, especially Fanboy's lists. You can temporarily disable ublock for a site by clicking on the broken blue circle icon if something breaks a site. Some secure sites like banks don't like it when they check for authorisation. As aside, I think it's a good idea to have an unmodified browser as well to act as a reserve in case something is amiss on a site you want to access and to eliminate whether your usual browser is at issue. It's very difficult to have a secure, privacy-based browser without sometimes breaking a site, like, as I said, banks. They have their own secure channels built in anyway.

That's something I didn't know. Makes sense, they avoid programmed cell death and the fidelity of resultant copies degrades? I thought the telomeres helped to avoid that copy degradation, but the price was guaranteed senescence.

I did say "....can't keep replicating perfectly". My point was that even if you can avoid carcinogenics and the like, telomere shortening will get you in the end. cancer is not really something you can overcome.

Cellular machinery can't keep replicating perfectly after the telomeres are depleted. Cancer isn't something that can be beaten, only delayed or sidelined by some other fatal experience. Cancer ultimately is bound to increasing entropy; the tendency for systems to become disorganized.

What browser are you using?

Millionaires are common. Mainly those with it tied up in houses. Musk's daughter has him sized up: All the world's a stage, eh?

Yes. a lot of the 60-plussers attitudes are generally shocking and antiquated in my area. It tickles me greatly that Elon now has a trans-daughter. Binarity is at the historical cusp of being seen like the aether, I think. The increase in variability of expression will bode us more favourably to surmount adverse circumstances in the future. It means individuals can move away from restrictive traditional social expectations into activities and cognitive pursuits they excel at, which should benefit the societies that welcome them. "Vive la difference", as the French say.

He looks mature, with sufficient gravitas, not old. He doesn't look like he's pushing up against gravity; that's the important thing.

To dim this is a parlour game, not to be taken seriously. I actively engage with Zionist-type morons elsewhere everyday, who come out with the most ridiculous rubbish and gutter-level insults, so I have developed somewhat of a thick skin, but, yeah, finding a reply from him is like finding dogshit on your shoe most of the time. If he can brazenly come out with the stuff he does, I can respond in kind, like now. I've done my bit reporting, but it's up to the mods.

Ok. The Higgs field is what contributes to mass?

We can talk about space between things and things that occupy space, depending on the focus. 'Space' is just an abstraction to delineate an object within it or outside of it, or the whole inclusive volume. A space is occupied, or not, depending what your focus is. Are their 'actors' in it or not. This is turning into a tautology.

Space aka volume. Distance is a 1D abstraction of space. Space as something material depends on what you want to look at within that volume.

Unoccupied space at what level? That's semantics, depending on what one is focusing on. All space has matter in it. If the space didn't have matter in it there would be no space, since space is the distance between things or that volume a thing occupies. No definition can be all inclusive... to define means to distinguish i.e delineate, or we might as well say 'Universe' to cover every possible instance.

I think so too. Space is that which is occupied by matter and matter is that which occupies space, in the same sense that matter tells space how to curve and space tells matter how to move. They are inextricable. Per Markus, some years ago: "Spacetime is the map, not the territory". It's a conceptualization of a geometrical arena, with volumetric and temporal axes, to describe energy-density-momentum through time of phenomena within it in some arbitrary volume. The ontological nature - what something is intrinsically - can never be known, only what it does. Trying to get a macro-materialistic sense of things outside of our senses is futile.

Trump and Vance are spineless political chameleons.

Shapiro is being like a good scientist: changing his position with the mounting evidence. History will be on the side of the antizionists. The true nature and aims of Zionism is execrable. The US and Europe has fought wars against the governing assembly of fascists and authoritarians who want a monoethnocentric state, and here they are throwing billions and arms at such people so that they can create one. America and the UK has truly been bought. AIPAC, and the like, are an existential threat to world peace.

Or as Trump would like it "Trump 24/7/365!"

In retrospect, my exposure to the history of the British industrial revolution 1740-1940 primed me for appreciating anthropogenic climate change now. Newcomen changed everything. It meant absolutely bugger all to me in my teens. I agree that you need some decades behind you and lived some of your own history to get a proper feel for it. Time means little as a teen... like a billionaire awash with money.

I think this time, you've just got to think about winning. The alternative is too unpalatable. There is the prospect of there not being another election for many years after this one. Those millions of guns could about to be getting very busy in a few years or less.

That's good. I'm becoming more interested in history as well. I never used to like it at school. I've sort of realized that we need to know where things came from in order to know where things are going.

Sometimes, offspring can feel overwhelmed by their parents achievements and have more modest ambitions. One of my cousins was like that. Not everyone is cut out to think in abstract sciency/mathy ways. We are what we are. It takes all sorts to make a world. In chemistry and especially organic chem, there seems to be mountains of stuff you have to know by rote, as you said. I prefer to learn and apply principles to answer questions, rather than have to learn lots of stuff by rote, I get bored with it. My memory is not my strongest point is likely why that is. I see principles and formulae as like a Swiss knife that I can do a number of things with. I can get more out for the effort applied.

LOL!