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If print-on-demand costs less than $40, that’s how they profit.

I don’t think that works in higher population areas, where there’s going to be background noise no matter what and you don’t hear the stealth auto. The vision impaired hear the chirp of the “walk” signal and need to hear if there’s a car ignoring the red light.

NIST standard sushi chef for civilian applications. There might be a milspec sushi chef, but that would be classified. The SI unit is the benihana

Can’t watch out if you have a vision impairment. That’s the population being helped by noisemakers on (nearly) silent cars, since drivers have a tendency to hit pedestrians. ~100k injured a year in the US, according to https://www.banalaw.com/practices/pedestrian-accidents/

A weak laser isn’t going to slice up a bird, and a strong laser (even a weak one, really) is an eye hazard to anyone looking out the window

But human waste has bacteria and parasites that are specific to humans, so the concern is that there’s a higher chance of spreading disease. Cholera, for example. AFAICT it’s largely a matter of exposure to human waste, not other animals’

! Moderator Note If all you can do is repeat what you’ve posted, we’re done. You haven’t presented a way to test your idea in any quantifiable way, so it does not meet the criteria of speculations.

As opposed to what? You say this as if it’s not the inherent nature of choice. How do you vote for only part of a person?

That’s not at all obvious to me. In the US, the combined net worth of the twelve wealthiest people exceeds $2 trillion. Meanwhile we have homeless people. And people in other countries are worse off. What seems to be true is that being poor in the US still affords more comfort than being poor did in times before technology. You can be poor and still have e.g. access to indoor plumbing. It’s not necessarily synonymous with destitute. That’s not the same thing.

One problem with putting New Year’s day on the solstice is that it moves around - it falls on Dec 20, 21 or 22. A variable length of year might not be the best approach

Raising that possibility. Optimism. Sort of.

More money than brains. If you're an optimistic sort, you might say “at least he didn’t blow it on drugs” but that’s really pushing it.

You say yes, it’s new, but haven’t listed anything new. These effects are already known, so they don’t test your idea unless you quantify the deviations.

Is there any of this that isn’t already part of existing physics? And is it testable?

I didn’t rework your words; I quoted them without change. I did use my own in reply. Not really. An infographic with 24 fallacies listed - am I supposed to have used all of them? Do I pick one? Do you not know which one I allegedly used? Is this just distraction so you don’t have to address the issue (i.e. a red herring, not listed in that link)? Do you not understand how discussions work? Something else? Whether someone else is confused isn’t your call to make.

I didn’t add anything. I pointed out an implication, which suggests the statement is not true. You can retract it or defend it.

Was that in response to me? I didn’t put your name on it, but you said “atheists believe” like there’s some strict doctrine beyond non-belief in gods.

The Romans are to blame for some of it. Moving the start of the new year when reworking their calendar, going from 10 to 12 months. But there are lots of calendars out there, and the new year doesn’t coincide with the Gregorian (or Julian) calendar. Even in the Julian calendar, new year was not always Jan 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year

That implies belief in a supreme being is required to believe in reincarnation, or mysticism (multiple planes of existence). I don’t see why that is true.

! Moderator Note This isn’t the stream-of-consciousness forum. You need to explain what this means, and why it counts as philosophy.

You can absorb protons (particle capture), you can have a particle strike a nucleus and knock a proton out (particle ejection), you can have a neutron turn into a proton or proton turn into a neutron (beta decay and electron capture) and fission (whether induced or a spontaneous decay)

Then they have no place here. Yes, it is. You can’t add variables with different units. You can’t have an exponent with units.

It’s physics. Lots of abstract things in physics. Which is not what physics does. It tells us how nature behaves. The nature of reality is philosophy. How do you empirically test whether you’ve described the nature of reality? As opposed to something else, like Plato’s allegory of the cave?

! Moderator Note I have removed your links. Posting something as facebook or instagram doesn’t tell anyone what the link actually is, and what we’re looking for is some kind of scientific study, not a dozen random people saying something. This is a science discussion site. Anecdotes aren’t data. And, as I said, advertising is against the rules. Thread closed.

“Citation needed” should not be ignored. It’s a reasonable request that you support a claim, and failure to do so makes your post soapboxing. There’s a conversation to be had about the pros and cons of profit-driven research, but griping is not going to work.