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People can stop him, but many of the ones with that power refuse to exercise it, i.e. congress, SCOTUS Did they? Yes. And Trump pardoned them or commuted their sentences https://www.jan-6.com/full-list-of-people-pardoned? People were deported in violation of a court order. Funding issues defied a court order. https://truthout.org/articles/trump-white-house-refuses-to-abide-by-1-in-3-court-orders-made-against-them/ “The Trump White House has been accused of “defying or frustrating court oversight” in 57 cases, or around 35 percent of rulings or orders made against them” Most have only just gotten to SCOTUS, other don’t have to be ignored since they have bent over backwards (and ignoring protections) to accommodate him (e.g. allowing racial profiling for ICE detentions) Did he? Or did he find another avenue (i.e. law) to exercise his authority? AFAICT there was no blanket ruling against debt relief, it was using a particular legal vehicle, but multiple ones existed.

https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2025/11/09/loebs-3i-atlas-anomalies-explained/ “Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft. He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft around 40%, which gives him plausible deniability of the bad-faith “just asking questions” variety while still making the comet sound weird enough that lots of people are thinking (or worried!) that it’s an alien spacecraft. It certainly gets him lots of TV time and fan mail. Here are why these anomalies are not indications that it is an alien spacecraft.” My doctor asked me about Atlas at my recent checkup and I assured them that any talk about aliens was massively overblown.

Aren’t there already examples of this? Hieroglyphics and other early writing systems? Chinese? Japanese kanji? Logographic languages exist.

I’m definitely right. It’s a matter of momentum, too, maybe even more than energy. Traditional rockets have to expel mass. Photons are possible, but less efficient by a huge factor Launching a 500 kg probe is one thing. Launching the earth is quite another. “once speed is gained” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here There is no inherent velocity. We do know that we’re gravitationally bound to the sun, so we know how much kinetic energy we have to add to escape the solar system. Or perhaps you need to learn some physics if you want to discuss this, as opposed to ignorantly babbling about it.

We expect material for discussion to be posted here. Not via links or uploads.

That’s why you can’t cherry-pick evidence. All of it must be considered/ “The jury is out” means a decision has mot been reached. But not being out yet? It implies the trial is still ongoing. It’s not. Gravity does not behave as magnetism does. Back when I was teaching I learned that you can’t take someone’s word for it. The people who do not understand often lack the requisite ability to assess their understanding, much like in the Dunning-Kruger effect. As exchemist notes, your posts show that you do not understand.

TIL what a Jonbar hinge/point is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonbar_hinge “the fictional concept of a crucial point of divergence between two outcomes, especially in time-travel stories”

Right.

Depends on what it’s harmonic of, doesn’t it? The fundamental frequency might be e.g. 1 THz and these are the 64th and 97th harmonics. We used to get our clock microwave frequencies using a dielectric resonant oscillator fed with 100 MHz, and picking off the 68th harmonic (for Rb; 92nd for Cs. Then mix in whatever was needed to add or subtract to get to resonance)

I’m guessing it’s even and odd harmonics, but they might not care if their goal was just to have their web address show up in the user profile. But I deleted it, since that constitutes advertising.

Moderator NoteThis does not meet the threshold for discussion in speculations. It’s also arguably soapboxing, spamming and bad-faith violations. Keep it up and one place you won’t exist is here.

I’d guess that if you can eat out at nice restaurants, affording food in general is not a problem.

At the northern end, not so much the southern https://food-deserts.com/food-deserts-in-new-york-city/

The mayor-elect said something to the effect that there were people spending more to defeat him than they would pay in increased taxes. The commentary was that they were opposed because their money would no longer grant them access and influence, which seems spot-on. It’s less about him being socialist, and more about the lack of corruption that a true public servant represents. Let’s hope he lives up to that billing. If the location were profitable it probably wouldn’t be a food desert. It will be interesting to see the ripple effects of addressing this problem. Solving one problem might lead to reductions in the severity of other problems. People ending up with a little more money means it gets spent elsewhere in the city.

They’ve now been merged. The trick is discouraging spam but not legitimate new members, as iNow points out.

I actually have had a few ideas, spurred on by this discussion, that I will let the other mods critique and point out any flaws I might have missed. Don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, or tip our hand.

Not always. We’ve had spammers who waited out the 24-hour limit to post more than 5 times, and ones in the past who posted to get to where they could post links (older board software; that restriction doesn’t seem to be in effect anymore) There’s little to keep a anyone from registering and returning, if that’s what’s necessary to slime us.

This doesn’t solve the problem though. They get approved, and then they spam. All this does is add an extra step for the moderators.

Posting in Science News carries with it the expectation of a link to a news article, which should have enough detail for a discussion. (More than what you’ve posted)

That’s why I expanded the scope of discussion, and later issued a modnote. The trait is not particular to any one nationality, and we’re not going down that path.

King Phenomenon has been banished for repeated soapboxing, and like so many, not understanding that being admonished following the rules is not some kind of partisan stance against their views.

I think that the emergence of such leadership in various places shows that these traits are lurking in the citizenry to some extent, and are emboldened by the rise of those leaders, which gives them opportunity to recruit more to their view.

Unicorn dung?

Let’s not use this questionable proposition to pile on any one country, and thereby violating rule 2.1

Excepts from two of our rules 2.7 Advertising and spam is prohibited. We don't mind if you put a link to your noncommercial site (e.g. a blog) in your signature and/or profile, but don't go around making threads to advertise it. 2.8 Preaching and "soap-boxing" (making topics or posts without inviting, or even rejecting, open discussion) are not allowed. This is a discussion forum, not your personal lecture hall. This violates both rules