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About religions and worship, but not, I think, the existence.

Your arguments lack substance. Pointing out that there are gaps in knowledge and unanswered questions doesn’t reveal anything that’s unknown, and your tone suggests you think this is some kind of crisis. But, if you went back ten years, there would be even more unanswered questions in science. Tens years before that, even more. So “unanswered questions in science” has never been a red flag and nothing has made it one. ”ignorant” isn’t inherently a term of derision; we’re all ignorant on some topics. It simply means you lack some knowledge, which you’ve admitted. But the information you have presented was gathered from somewhere, and since we’ve seen similar objections in other discussions, there is a strong suspicion that you’re getting your information from less-than-reliable sources (which you don’t share, so how can we tell?) and are simply parroting what you’ve read rather than formulating your own thoughts.

Adding to the tiny amount of gravity outside of the ISS, yes. There’s something called the shell theorem that shows that the gravity inside of a uniform spherical shell is zero. (True for the electric field of a uniformly-distributed charge, too.)

Yes, the ISS does have a little gravity. The ISS’s mass is only about 4 x 10^5 kg - earth’s is 6 x 10^24 kg - and even though the astronauts are close to it, that’s a significant difference. Plus, the astronauts are inside of it. That matters, since it would pull in all directions, which would partly cancel.

I think you can take your racist, ignorant ass elsewhere.

Too late. He’s already declared a federal hiring freeze, which impacts the VA, though some democrats in the senate are trying to have the VA exempted https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-01-23-Letter-to-POTUS-on-VA-hiring-freeze.pdf Because Biden took them away?

Well, we’re on page 8, so some kind of discussion is happening. Perhaps it’s not the discussion you wanted, but then, it’s not your thread - you hijacked it. The OP asked “What if god was a jerk?” and you’re not discussing that at all. And there are potentially some interesting discussions we could be having - you brought up quantum biology, for example, but nothing that actually dives into the details of that. You’ve been focusing on things that haven’t been found, and on techniques that you don’t give details about, and which have not yielded results, which means your focus is on…nothing. When others try and engage you, you avoid any substance. I suspect your real complaint is that you haven’t found a credulous audience.

People can discuss what they want. Oh, FFS. Like Phi said, go read and learn. Don’t expect basic information to be spoon-fed to you. You have an obligation to have that already.

So all of this discussion is pointless.

And what else was going on in 2020, that affected demand? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

And what makes you think that this isn’t happening? We typically don’t hear about works-in-progress or avenues that don’t pan out. Successes get published.

That’s on you. Do you really think prices will drop? Oil companies will export oil if it’s more profitable to do so, limiting any benefit, as long as demand is high. Any steps limiting EV production and bolstering gasoline-powered cars will ensure that. Oil companies.

So? Misunderstanding Christianity seems to be a feature of Christianity (and probably of organized religion altogether). If it weren’t, we wouldn’t have all of these different sects. (tens of thousands of denominations) It’s pretty clear that the party that claims to be Christian never read the Bible (or possibly, like Otto, read but did not understand) Christian nationalists use religion as a cudgel to seek power, not because they’re devout If you did a “blind taste test” of party policy, you’d probably see that the Democrats’ policies are better aligned. The Republicans removed most of the Christian values from their politics decades ago. Modern science never had them, so that’s moot.

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I would argue that he is both.

Maybe people on a science discussion board would rather discuss…science? As opposed to getting exhausted talking about things probably meant to exhaust us.

Trump has shown time and again he’s not that bright, so I don’t think it’s all that thought out. Why would he care? He scammed them and got what he wanted from them. They are of no use to him anymore (not directly, at least) I don’t see why this matters. Trump shows no empathy or compassion. You are (like a lot of people, I imagine) projecting decency onto him, despite the lack of evidence that he actually has it.

Are you asking what it actually is, or how it’s treated by the GOP?

I agree, but I don’t think that removing the Spanish was motivated by greed. That’s another aspect of his “character” but largely orthogonal, I think, to his racism.

What does that have to do with Trump? He doesn’t appoint them. (and all senators are members of congress, but not all members of congress are senators) The prevailing view in the GOP is that women are inferior and exist to make babies (and perhaps sandwiches). Women are not treated as equals. It’s not a question of whether he is sexist, but to what degree. As to the specific composition of Trump’s appointees: go google it

AYFKM? I don’t understand why there’s any question at this point. I get why NYT and WaPo et al. hedge on their headlines (like their “confusion” about Musk giving a nazi salute), but seriously, is there any question that Trump is a racist bigot? Motivated by cruelty?

Any evidence that such matter exists? Any suggested ways of finding that evidence?

There have been people on street corners preaching that the end is nigh for a long time. And yes, they were invariably wrong, but THIS TIME, I assure you, the prediction is right. That’s what this sounds like. What has the approach you lobby for ever produced?

And is a common theme across multiple topics, followed by insisting that this new approach incorporate methods beyond science.

Cryptobros are apparently pissed off, since they were hoping to legitimize their scam, and this does pretty much the opposite.