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If you’re going to claim that it’s uncommon, citing an uncommon event doesn’t support your claim. You should also be specific. What provisions were “set aside”? (as opposed to eroded)

It’s not about what I’d like. It’s about having a definition so the thread can have a definition to point to, rather than the chaos that arises when people use different ones, resulting in discussions equating unequal things, like plant consciousness with human consciousness

Makes sense. State & local includes 3.8 million public school teachers https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/clr/public-school-teachers

This says ~ 2 million civilians with ~3.7 million contractors. (The fed workforce hasn’t changed all that much since the mid-90s, unless you include the temp worker spike every 10 years to do the census, even as the population has grown. Graph in first usafacts link) https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2023/05/opening-up-federal-contracting-jobs-for-more-americans/ This says ~ 3 million https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-federal-government/ And another 2.8 million in the military, if you include civilian support, national guard and reservists. (~2 million military, 800k civilians as of September 2023. ~1.3 million active-duty troops) https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-are-in-the-us-military-a-demographic-overview/

Is god really George Costanza?

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So it’s not new, as you claimed

So, an offshoot of nihilism?

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It’s not an information gap. Emotional persuasion has to be countered with better emotional persuasion. Unfortunately, fear is pretty primal, so making people afraid of “different” (be it skin color or sexuality or whatnot) is pretty effective. But step 1 is not repeating, and thus reinforcing, the lie. Trump won by a narrow margin, not as he keeps claiming, but people keep saying the m-word, and now that’s the narrative. Same with Musk and his purported intelligence.

Time is not absolute and not an invariant

As with most grammar and punctuation, it’s a convention that was adopted. People decided it was to be capitalized. I suspect the reasons that are presented are “just-so” stories rather than historical facts A lot of these rules were driven by typesetters, either for ease of printing or ease of reading. If it was because typesetters tended to run short of lower-case “i” in their kit, so they decided to capitalize the pronoun, would that decision have been recorded for posterity?

Just like with any other sort of propaganda, if you repeat it enough, people believe it to be true even if it’s not. And even if you can debunk it, if you use the propaganda’s phrasing, you reinforce the incorrect description.

Some excitation, yes. The peak of room-temperature photons is longer than 10 microns, but shorter wavelengths exist in the spectrum, as you note. The function is exponential, so increasing temperature will increase the excitation probability. But the color is probably due to what visible photons do to it, as with all things that have a color.

1 eV is not a thermal photon. kT for 300K is 0.026 eV e^-E/kT (probability of excitation) is going to be quite small

How was it estimated? The article only states the number, not the method or evidence.

All the money is going to go toward people making >$360k per year. Everyone else will see a tax hike

We’ve known who Trump is and still elected him president. This is related to the “information gap” error - the assumption that lack of knowledge is the problem, and can be fixed by filling in the gap. Or perhaps you’re so invested in him being a genius that you can’t accept any evidence to the contrary. What scientific papers has he authored? I can’t find any. So how do you conclude that he’s a successful scientist? Because a company he owns, and that employs ~10,000 people (and the technical people are likely engineers and technicians rather than scientists) has done some things? That speaks to the competence of the employees, not him. You’re giving him credit for other peoples’ work

So far it’s about $5 per taxpayer, so I don’t think that’s going to sway too may folks, especially those who have lost some kind of support

I missed where anyone has proposed curing him of any afflictions/deficiencies. Seeing as this is posted in politics, the “something” we do about it are political solutions, not medical ones.

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So, as MigL notes, blind people are an issue here. Or if you have a glass eye, or just close one eye.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world “nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns. And although the exact dynamics will depend on many factors, she has shown it takes around 3.5% of the population actively participating in the protests to ensure serious political change.” “During a peaceful street protest of millions of people, the members of the security forces may also be more likely to fear that their family members or friends are in the crowd – meaning that they fail to crack down on the movement. “Or when they’re looking at the [sheer] numbers of people involved, they may just come to the conclusion the ship has sailed, and they don’t want to go down with the ship,” Chenoweth says.”

Timely article “Author of Upcoming Elon Musk Biography Says ‘There Is No Evidence’ Billionaire Has Any ‘Intellectual Achievements’” https://www.yahoo.com/news/author-upcoming-elon-musk-biography-040538098.html “He was sued for stealing the idea for Zip2—which fired him as soon as investors got involved. He was going to run PayPal into the ground after his company merged with it—again he was fired. He invested in Tesla when it was distressed and quickly began running it into the ground.”