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Too bad it doesn’t work that way. A lot of folks are swayed by emotion, not reason. That’s why we have people that repeat nonsense. And too often people that appeal to freedom of speech are advocating for freedom from consequences of their speech.

A derivative is in one variable, e.g. dx/dy; a direction can be inferred by the sign A gradient is in more than one variable, and is explicitly a vector The derivative is basically the 1-D case of the gradient

AFAIK they are allowed to follow their own policies. They have to follow the law, such as complying with copyright takedown notices, issues involving harassment, etc. They can ban whoever they please. People can “vote with their feet”

Rights are between you and the government. Freedom of speech, in terms of the US first amendment, means the government can’t censor you. Forums, in general, are not government entities. Some more quotes for you “They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.” — Carl Sagan “Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.” — Robert L. Park. And this: https://xkcd.com/1357/

It happened, and if you know that and say that it didn’t, you are lying. If you don’t know, you are ignorant, and saying it didn’t happen is a misrepresentation, because you are saying you know something you don’t. But the burden is on you to educate yourself. If you make the argument, there really isn’t a scenario where you can say that it didn’t happen that isn’t an argument in bad faith. It doesn't really matter what your motivation is - whether you have an agenda, whether you are trolling, whatever - there’s little chance if convincing you otherwise, and we don’t want to waste time on it. And arguing by belittling others is another tactic that’s not going to fly.

You said “our government” before referencing Casey, and didn’t exactly make a direct connection. Protip: we can’t read your mind, so you need to do better (much better) in providing context and making rigorous arguments.

And you think that doesn’t already happen? No such thing; relativity tells us that time differs from one reference frame to another. But in a practical sense, as I said we have UTC for the earth already, and the deviation from this from elevation are not apparent to most

I think the average layperson thinks light is unaffected by gravity.

How would this universal clock disseminate time in a way that we don’t already do? We have Coordinated Universal Time and time zones; you can automatically get time on your smartphone or computer, or get by calling certain phone numbers (202-762-1401 in the US is my favorite) Do you mean a huge clock display on the moon? Which would be visible less than half the time?

! Moderator Note Advocating for racism or holocaust denial is going to result in a very quick exit for you. Trying to appeal to some crappy logic is not a mitigating factor

The irony here is it’s not his, it may be a Josh Billing saying. https://marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryphal-twain-things-we-know-that-just-aint-so/ “In his Quote Verifier, Ralph Keynes notes that some variation of the “just ain’t so” quip has been attributed not only to Twain, but also Yogi Berra, Eubie Blake, Frank “Kin” Hubbard, Charles Kettering, Will Rogers, and Artemus Ward. Keynes speculates that several of them may have borrowed the punchline from another 19th-century American humorist, Josh Billings. Among the “affurisms” listed in the 1886 edition of Billings’s complete work is the one-liner, “I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.”” see also https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/11/18/know-trouble/?amp=1 Which one is “our” government?

So as a you approach a specific point, entropy spontaneously decreases. In violation of the second law of thermodynamics The photon system must move at the speed of light, contrary to relativity. There is no rest frame for a photon.

I don’t suppose this has any scientific backing. Anyway, The American Psychological Association disagrees. https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq “Sexual orientation and gender identity are not the same thing—they are distinct aspects of being a person”

What does “useful for humanity” have to do with this?

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Hmmm. Writers…dramatic effect. Is there a connection? This is what I dislike about Jeopardy! - a secondary clue that’s much easier than the primary clue. (I say this despite the fact that my mom was on the show, ages ago, in the Art Fleming days. And was a one-day champion)

If they’re decent writers (and editors). People aren’t going to read impenetrable explanations - it’s got to be accessible

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“Most in say, the top hundred are not so much concerned about being knocked down a couple places so much as having their ultimate goal taken away by some with a well established inherent advantage.” I think it means you think there are other people, particularly athletes, who are worried. But that doesn’t change the question; you state this as if it were a fact. Then please, for the frikkin’ love of Zeus, please, point out who these athletes are? Are there transgender athletes competing who are not undergoing HRT?

Relativity is not really a widely-understood bit of science. Most people who are familiar with Newtonian gravity know it depends on mass. Light is massless. For those who might have a smattering of relativity knowledge, they might know that the speed of light is pretty fast, and constant. Popular science descriptions are not written for the scientists in the associated field.

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Well-established? Where and when did this happen? Why do I find things like this, if it is well-established? "Is there evidence that transgender women athletes have a physiological advantage? Not according to Eric Vilain, a geneticist at the University of California, Irvine, who specializes in gender-based biology. Very little research has been published on transgender athletes, and what has been published didn’t provide enough results to create evidence-based policies, says Vilain, who does not identify as transgender. “It’s not black and white.”" https://www.science.org/content/article/world-athletics-banned-transgender-women-competing-does-science-support-rule (from April 2023) "The research findings in the biomedical area are inconclusive. Studies which make conclusions on pre- and post-hormone replacement therapy (HRT) advantage held by trans women athletes have used either cis men or sedentary trans women as proxies for elite trans women athletes" ... "Available evidence indicates trans women who have undergone testosterone suppression have no clear biological advantages over cis women in elite sport." https://www.cces.ca/sites/default/files/content/docs/pdf/transgenderwomenathletesandelitesport-ascientificreview-e-final.pdf (2021 or later)

This scientist didn’t.

A screenshot of the Message app on a Mac. It looks like what I have on mine. edit: here's a screenshot from Messages on my computer The header, though, suggests the snapshot is from an iphone or ipad

Video of an unidentified falling object An example of why eyewitness testimony is unreliable