Everything posted by swansont
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Speculation (split from Great danger to the Earth)
That’s not actually what I meant. Evolution has been observed - that’s what makes it a fact. There is also a massive amount of evidence that tells us the theory is correct. That’s not the metric by which you assess a theory. There are areas on earth and in space where gravity has not been measured, but that does not call models of gravity into question. That would be a ludicrous standard to apply.
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Speculation (split from Great danger to the Earth)
It’s a theory and also a fact.
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War Games: Russia Takes Ukraine, China Takes Taiwan. US Response?
This held up well. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/opinions/war-crimes-russia-invasion-ukraine-newton/index.html
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Speculation (split from Great danger to the Earth)
We define what we mean by speculation But he didn’t call it “the theory of relativity” when he first aired it. The paper was “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” and Einstein later referred to it as the relativity principle.
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Speculation (split from Great danger to the Earth)
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Calculating speed from microbit
Standard physics kinematics equation will give you this. v = at for an object starting at rest, with a constant acceleration. You just have to put this in SI units
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War Games: Russia Takes Ukraine, China Takes Taiwan. US Response?
Hillary is not in politics anymore, and Hunter never was. Jen Psaki doesn’t make policy AFAIK. And no GOP members/pundits on the list. I wonder if they get paid in rubles, will they continue to shill for Putin as the exchange rate drops?
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Should socioeconomic class be a protected characteristic?
Again, I think this is getting into the game too late. If you grow up poor the system is stacked against you all the way through your youth. A company can hire a middle/upper-middle class worker just by virtue of the fact that they are likely to have better credentials. They can afford to have gone to better schools, gotten tutors to help, and been able to afford a low-paying internship to get experience, because they are supported by their family. It's hard to show that an employer harmed candidate A if they can show candidate B (whom they hired) has a better resumé. Or harm to candidate C, who had to drop out and work to support a family, without getting to go to college. That's not the fault of Acme Products Inc. I think what you really need is to have programs that level the playing field from the start.
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Should socioeconomic class be a protected characteristic?
I disagree with your position that socioeconomic class should be a protected class. Not because there is no discrimination, though. Classism is a problem. Some people are snobs. The problem as I see it is that protected classes are groups of people who are trapped in their group (though they might not agree with my wording of being trapped, and I don't mean any disrespect by it) What I mean is that if you are of a particular race or skin color, or are a woman, or you follow a particular religion, or are above a certain age, etc. there is no way (other than via extraordinary means for one or two categories) out of being in that category. That's not so with socioeconomics. It's not easy, but it's possible to go from being poor to being middle class, and you can go from middle to upper class. And you can go in the other direction with poor planning or bad luck. Further, the solution of applying this to hiring practices is too small. The friction of being poor happens continually, and isn't just an issue of when someone is hired. My issue here is not so much that I disagree with the broader thesis about classism (because I don't) as that I think you aren't making a good argument for assigning protected class status for hiring purposes.
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Arizona House Legislature Passes Unconstitutional Bill...
Smartphones, or any phone with good video, storage and bandwidth to send video didn't exist back in 1995, so my point holds - a decision made when cellphone cameras were not ubiquitous might be ignored by the court, especially if the court is hell-bent on changing the rules. Furthermore, Fordyce wasn't charged with interfering with police, so I have to wonder if it would even be considered relevant.
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How can information (Shannon) entropy decrease ?
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Why is there less talk about medicinal herbs, herbal medicines , herbs , mushrooms in west today
I don’t see the relevance. I didn’t claim that anything was eradicated. I didn’t claim that all modern medicine is new knowledge, only that some of it is. Can we dispense with the straw man now?
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War Games: Russia Takes Ukraine, China Takes Taiwan. US Response?
Perhaps it's because I said no such thing. The only people to mention ruble/rubles in this thread before now are you, iNow and The Vat (assuming the search function is to be trusted)
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Why is there less talk about medicinal herbs, herbal medicines , herbs , mushrooms in west today
It sort of coincided with the industrial revolution. Which predates Dalton, so I don't know that there were chemical formulas to burn. But I'm pretty sure that they didn't know about e.g. mRNA, so some vaccines we have today are definitely not some re-imagination of a folk cure for COVID.
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War Games: Russia Takes Ukraine, China Takes Taiwan. US Response?
and the connection to my post is...what?
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Why is there less talk about medicinal herbs, herbal medicines , herbs , mushrooms in west today
Which is not the point. Nobody has claimed otherwise. There have been breakthrough drugs/treatments that are not distillations of remedies that existed before modern medicine.
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Why is there less talk about medicinal herbs, herbal medicines , herbs , mushrooms in west today
There are a lot of treatments that are not based on traditional medicine.
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Banned/Suspended Users
AndaleAndale banned as a sockpuppet of Buai and Noice..gui
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Why is there less talk about medicinal herbs, herbal medicines , herbs , mushrooms in west today
It probably is used less, though. If you get sick, some people will use modern medicine if such treatment is available to them, which means they are not using "traditional" medicine. The ones who partake of modern medicine will try other approaches if the original treatment fails.
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War Games: Russia Takes Ukraine, China Takes Taiwan. US Response?
Russia has engaged before, so their targets don’t seem to think so. Is there a shortage of planes? They won’t do any good if there are no pilots to fly them. It’s not like you can train up a pilot quickly, compared to getting someone basic skills in shooting a weapon.
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What would happen to space if passage of time was accelerating? Equality principle. Similarity of empty space. A Shrinking matter theory that might actually work.
So according to your conjecture a clock that constructed on earth will not experience time dilation when launched into space?
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War Games: Russia Takes Ukraine, China Takes Taiwan. US Response?
After they shot missiles at the US consulate?
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War Games: Russia Takes Ukraine, China Takes Taiwan. US Response?
The connection with Ukraine is…?
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Why is there less talk about medicinal herbs, herbal medicines , herbs , mushrooms in west today
I think part of the story is that there’s no patent protection for existing treatments, unless you can isolate some unique compound. So no incentive to go through the expense of clinical trials. You can sell it as a supplement but it’s a bit like selling a generic after patents expire.
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Good and evil vs cause and effect
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