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Plus the endless stream of lies, making it so that you don’t know what’s true and what’s false, so you don’t believe anything. Not even what you see with your own eyes. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Some voters just didn’t blame Trump for things that happened on his watch, or flat-out didn’t believe he did things he did “Undecided voters didn’t believe that some of the highest profile things that happened during Trump’s presidency—even if they saw these things negatively—were his fault. This was the case on two of the biggest issues in the campaign—the 2020 economic crash and the demise of reproductive rights” https://newrepublic.com/article/188238/trump-won-voter-perception-2024

Have all the votes been counted yet?

Opinions are opinions; accuracy is only an issue for factual statements. You really think this absolves you? Try it when you get pulled over for speeding and see if it works. I don’t think so.

Whether something happened is not opinion. You should be able to show that the ads and speeches were about disdain over Trump, painting a rosy picture of the situation, that their plan was not expressed in layman’s terms. You offered nothing to back this up. If you bother to read the past few pages you’ll see that you’re not the only one being called out for not offering substantiation

That cite facts? LOL And when he was running for re-election it was for president, not for any other office he held. So it seems to me his record as president would be the appropriate yardstick to use. Besides, he didn’t have to propose legislation to support unions before republicans eroded protections, because the protections were in place. Funny how none of these address the exchange where I told you to stop making stuff up.

! Moderator Note Quotation marks imply you are quoting someone. You need to disclose the source. You’ve been asked elsewhere

In addition to supporting unions, Biden expanded overtime eligibility. created millions of jobs while dropping unemployment to historic lows, real wages rose, and he forgave a craptonne of student debt (and tried to do even more but was thwarted by the GOP). His policies created manufacturing jobs that disappeared under Trump’s. Not being aware of the record is not the same thing as actually having a weak record. —- Add to iNow’s post about the misinformed “The now-president-elect, according to that NBC survey, posted his biggest margin of 53-27% among voters who don’t follow any news. Trump’s win was a triumph of the ill-informed.” https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trust-mainstream-media-2024-election-20241110.html https://archive.li/NFeTA (archive link)

That’s an interesting take. Yes, even if it was the first time Biden walked a strike picket line, can you name another president who has done so? No, you can’t, because he was the first. It’s not hard to find articles chronicling the ways he supported unions https://www.americanprogressaction.org/article/8-ways-the-biden-administration-has-fought-for-working-people-by-strengthening-unions/ https://www.govexec.com/management/2024/05/bidens-labor-report-card-historian-gives-union-joe-higher-grade-any-president-fdr/397002/ Another thing that’s far from unique is promoting a narrative without regard for facts. George HW Bush was a sitting VP. Biden was a VP. So was Nixon. (though I suspect you meant sitting VP)

Well, that’s not going to work. The speculations forum has standards; it’s not the wild guess forum. If it’s not thought to be true you’re just wasting everyone’s time. So what’s oscillating? This tells us nothing. It sounds like more ChatGPT dreck. You need to post your equations; I didn’t see any time-dependent variables in them, but could have missed that. If there’s no time dependence, how is there oscillation? Why would the Higgs field oscillate? Why don’t we observe this oscillation in mass? How could this be tested?

That’s word salad. What is it about this interaction that makes it vary in time?

I’m also considering that the discussion covers the timeline back to Galileo, and the vast majority of the population of the world was quite poor until fairly recently. The reason that all the named geniuses were white European men, is not some innate superiority of being white, European, or male.

And Endy has implied, you have no right of free speech with regard to this forum. You are expected to follow our rules, and if you don’t, you get kicked out. The government is not the one doing that, so no rights are violated. From the link: “Higher prices might be the top concern for Americans, but a very close second is the increasing cost of speaking your mind,” said FIRE Research Fellow Nathan Honeycutt. “The message is clear: Americans want their free speech rights respected.” This strongly suggests these people also do not understand what the right of free speech is. The are confusing it with freedom from consequences of their speech, which does not exist

True, but statistically speaking it’s much more likely that they were simply born poor and never got the chance to apply their genius to “idle” pursuits.

You need to fix your equation formatting so it renders properly. You mention frequency. Frequency of what, exactly? What is oscillating? If the Higgs coupled to some other dimension — something not in the current theory — that would affect the Higgs. Shouldn’t that shift the mass? Why was it discovered where it was expected? Your focus on gravity for variable mass is probably misplaced; gravity is very weak. We should see effects in atomic and nuclear systems. We have lots of data from accelerator experiments already. Why don’t we see the evidence in existing experiments?

There have undoubtedly been geniuses that never got an opportunity to discover new science because they were born to the wrong circumstances and died toiling in the field or from unfortunate events.

That only works if the tariff is the amount of the price difference. And we have actual data from when this happened, with a smaller tariff: prices went up. That helps the owner of the US business, since they can raise prices and increase profits. The workers are hurt because they are paying more for the products. Again: we have actual data from when this happened before. ”experts aren’t always right” is a pretty lame argument. Experts tell you not to jump off a cliff because you will die. They aren’t always right, but that’s not a reason to jump off a cliff. Again: actual data. That’s another danger.

Einstein moved to the US in 1933. He had visited prior to that, of course

there should be more content/context posted —- “Almost certainly, it was commanded to fire its thrusters in the mid-1970s to take it westwards. The question is who that was and with what authority and purpose? It's intriguing that key information about a once vital national security asset can just evaporate.” Not so intriguing, IMO. It’s been ~50 years. Paper records get lost. Storage gets moved to new locations. Computer systems get upgraded, and probably multiple times. If they were computerized, what medium was used? Almost certain to be obsolete today. Lots of personnel turnover; institutional knowledge gets lost. If this was a dead satellite, nobody was around to continually refresh memories.

I think if democrats hadn’t overestimated the effect of Trump’s troubles — thinking he wouldn’t be a viable candidate — and underestimate the lameness of the press, they might have tried to tie things like inflation to him. They may have held back because of the thought that they could work with republican. They need to get a LOT better at hanging blame on republicans, discard silly notions of bipartisanship, and not save republicans from any disastrous decisions they make. People will be hurt, but that’s not avoidable now, and I have no sympathy for people who voted for whatever happens (and non-voters, who sinned by omission). Ignorance, as they say, is no excuse.

I saw one like that (probably the same one) which also said crime was up (another lie) and called Biden’s economic policies “disastrous” (arguably another lie) Propaganda works. Too many aren’t engaged enough to get the facts, or don’t think Trump will do what he’s promised to do, or don’t understand how they will be affected (e.g. the “China will pay the tariffs” nonsense) And there are still men who will not vote for a woman

Did they or didn’t they? At least take a consistent position. Now, take the first step and back this up with evidence. I know evidence isn’t your strong suit, but without it, it’s just blather. For example, I saw ads saying Harris would cut taxes for the middle class. How is that not in “layperson’s terms”? Or her saying she’ll stop price-gouging? Or “more affordable housing”? Stop making stuff up. If you can’t deal in facts, go away.

I fail to see how acknowledging the GOP strategy means the democrats ignored this. If anything, the comment about Taylor Swift means they acknowledged it. They were unsuccessful at combatting it. Those are different things.

I think part of the issue is she’s complaining about a very, very narrow slice of physics, but since that’s her area, to her it seems like a bigger problem. There’s some tacit acknowledgment that physics is progressing but it’s by applying existing foundations of QM and GR. We went a really long time between Newton’s laws and special relativity. Sure, different techniques were investigated (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian) but they were just extensions of the basics - no new foundations. Did physics fail because we went >200 years before that happened?

And folks will say, “Why didn’t you tell me?” about all the stuff that people were trying to tell them, but it didn’t register, or they were tuned in to sources that fed them propaganda. Those same sources will find someone to blame, and it won’t be Trump.