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The earth has no intent either, but a dropped rock will fall toward it, and not in a random direction. There is more to natural phenomena than randomness.

Not just swing states, a small subset of these voters. Certainly not a “majority of Americans” as you had claimed “Of those surveyed, 2,255 were classified as “Deciders” — those who fit into one or more categories: They voted in only one of the past two presidential elections; are between ages 18 and 25; registered to vote since 2022; did not definitely plan to vote for either Biden or Trump this year; or switched their support between 2016 and 2020.” IOW, likely these are uninformed voters. “Still, most voters, regardless of party, report that the issue matters to them. Gest noted that “the vast majority don’t want to tip toward more authoritarian control,” with systems of representative or direct democracy polling far more favorably.” If that’s the vast majority, the poll was selecting a small minority. Who might have other issues affecting their vote.

Was anyone claiming that it did? Note that length also has no existence in the form of matter and energy I used to build clocks, and none of them worked that way. None of them had hands.

Do these people (esp. the first two groups) even watch debates? Fewer people watched it than watched the first debate in 2020 “the count of those who watched Thursday night's debate on TV marks a 30% decline from 2020, when more than 73 million people watched the first debate between Biden and Trump across all TV networks” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/first-debate-ratings-2024/ Earlier this year a fair fraction of people were unaware Trump had any legal issues https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/02/most-republicans-arent-aware-trumps-various-legal-issues/ A lot of people just don’t pay attention to politics, at least until the ads hit in the fall “But the pattern among Republicans is clear. At most, 45 percent of Republicans said they knew about legal issues: specifically, the documents case and his being found liable for assaulting the writer E. Jean Carroll. Only a quarter knew about the value-inflation suit, and only 4 in 10 knew about the criminal charges in Manhattan related to the hush money payments to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.”

To think you could have had nuclear physicists working on this, except they worked on fusion instead.

What does your model successfully predict? Show your work.

If you have a bunch of hydrogen and oxygen atoms bumping into each other, are the resulting molecules randomly formed? You’ll get H3O2 as often as H2O?

The phrasing of the OP certainly suggests it - it’s not “should we replace Biden?” It skips past that to the position that we should (and skips examining all the reasons it would be disastrous) which is GOP propaganda. Now we have a vague mention of a poll with another bit of spin, but no link to it. It’s meant to have the left admit defeat before the battle has happened. Waste time and effort thinking about some pie-in-the-sky scenarios that aren’t going to happen, feeding the idea that some perfect candidate is out there. There never will be. Any one person’s perfect candidate is mediocre in someone else’s eyes. As the saying goes, it’s like a bus. You take the one that gets you closest to where you want to go. Don’t waste time whining about the fact that it’s not a flying taxi cab. Perfect is the enemy of good enough. If you want to defeat Trump and preserve democracy, let’s get to work. If not, get your Nazi ass away from me.

There’s a gap between “molecules bump into each other randomly” and “living matter” that you can drive a galaxy through The results of atoms and molecules bumping into each other is decidedly not random.

So not only is the mind not from the brain, it doesn’t even require life? And it existed prior to the universe? Those are rather bold claims, and not consistent with your previous definition of mind.

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I think various things with Boeing have pointed out that a lack of independent oversight is not a wise path to take regarding safety. We see it in other industries but the damage there is not quite as spectacular (e.g. banking failures ruin lives, too, but not quite as dramatically)

Yes, we do interference with them in a controllable fashion. With sound, as MigL has offered; there are also examples of levitation with sound waves. We do diffraction and interference with light, and we make holograms.

And what does this have to do with this topic?

But you don’t know that it won’t work, only that it hasn’t, which is true of all research at some point.

And yet when I asked about this, you said “the numbers don't matter” If you can’t actually support your argument this is just ignorance-based ranting

What randomness are you talking about?

If your issue is the ethics of Australia rejecting nuclear power you should have posed it that way. But you didn’t. What is unethical about fusion research? No R&D effort has had a successful launch before completion. If you’re going to criticize it, at least use the same standard. It’s like complaining about not breaking the sound barrier before Yeager did it.

What do you mean by “real”? Sounds real if you can explain what it is. Is it that time isn’t a physical object? Consider length. The same issues exist. How would one confirm this experimentally? Considering that you can’t have a situation with no motion. Wait until you study more physics. Lots of mathematical constructs out there. It’s simply not an issue.

Not at all. If there was an impasse or outright failure, sure, continuing would be the sunk cost fallacy, but knowledge diffusion is a real thing, even in programs that aren’t being cancelled. Some key person retiring or dying can impact a program. Researchers are not interchangeable parts. That’s not the case, though. It’s progressing. There’s no guarantee that a working, net-energy producing reactor will ever be built, but there’s no denying that the state of development is beyond where it was, say, 10 years ago. EAST, NIF and KSTAR have each set some kind of record of a fusion parameter in the past few years. And let’s not forget that the premise here is that there is some ethical issue because of the “vast” amount of power that fusion programs use

The problem with putting any particular research “on the back burner” is that knowledge diffusion kills it. The researchers move on to other projects and you won’t be able to reassemble the same researchers. Any institutional knowledge, any tricks of the trade, will be lost and have to be re-learned if you try and restart. If you decide you need fusion, however far away we currently are, you would have added extra years to reaching the end goal, since you’ll have to duplicate previous work.

And I wonder how that was achieved. Could it be by investing in R&D, even when the return on such investment wasn’t (yet) being realized? There are discussions here, from not too long ago, about how solar isn’t viable because it was so expensive. Good thing those calls weren’t answered.

Biden bowing out at this point would be viewed as weakness and desperation, much like McGovern replacing Eagleton with Shriver as his running mate in ‘72. Any new candidate would be basically unvetted, and whatever skeletons are in their closet will have to be dealt with in real time. Exposure at the last minute will be like “but her emails” and be similarly blown out of proportion by the press even if it’s much ado about nothing. And yet few of these people ran in 2020. Booker did and dropped out pretty quickly - his polling wasn’t high enough to keep him in the debates. Why would they garner national support now, when they are not nationally known? I think you overestimate how much attention the average person pays to politics, especially outside of their own state. You’re talking about energizing a small subset of the voters, while the rest are wondering who these people are

And we have a thread on the support team Trump will install, to basically dismantle the government from within. Why is it that we can’t hold both men - who have a track record in office, and whose plans for the next four years are known - to the same standard? You want a POTUS who can lead and show strength in meeting foreign leaders. Who do you think has the respect of them right now? Is Trump going to magically develop these traits? Why aren’t we discussing why the convicted felon, rapist and fraudster, who regularly engaged in corruption, should withdraw?

Are you the OP? Did I say you had an agenda? A G E N D A Are you eligible to vote in US elections?