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When I was employed I ate three squares a day because that is what my schedule allowed. Now that I'm retired I eat when I'm hungry. I suspect that people who have work schedules also have eating schedules by default.

Some do, some don't.

Shortest poem ever written: Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes AKA "Fleas" by Strickland Gillilan Adam had'em.

How does someone choose to believe in god? Could you choose, for example, to believe that the earth is flat? You may claim you believed it if you thought disbelieving would result in punishment, but would you really believe the world is flat? It's the same with belief in god. I don't believe in him and I cannot force myself to do so.

I believe England also has an independent nuclear deterrent.

That in large part depends on who presumes to send troops into said area. I suspect Putin would do so much sooner than a Western power would.

Are precursors of nucleotide bases the quacking of a duck, or just some random sound? Seems like finding carbon in a meteorite could be considered a quack as much as finding a precursor of a nucleotide base is considered a quack.

Are you feeling okay?

Well, they probably didn't believe THAT UAP was of alien origin. I don't think you can draw any conclusions about other UAPs.

Well, this kind of scrambles the definition of a 'species'. Smithsonian MagazineThese Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That...Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males

Why doesn't it Imply a universal force of attraction between objects with mass? (Still trying to understand the arguments.)

Back when we looked at gravity as a force, was it considered merely an abstract theoretical notion, and not a measurable physical quantity? Or like spacetime curvature now, did we think gravity as a force "is not merely an abstract theoretical notion. It is a measurable physical quantity."?

The effect we call gravity seems real (to me at least) as it appears to act consistently, but our description of it changes based on something we make up. We used to call gravity a force, then we called it spacetime, and if we can come up with a better model that describes it as a sort of blowing aether and it additionally addresses quantum gravity, then we'll call it blowing aether. All of the descriptions are invented by us as a way to describe the effect we see. Isn't the effect we call gravity more 'real' than a description we invented just because it is the best predictive model at the time?

But spacetime isn't a tangible thing that can be shaped, is it? I thought spacetime was simply a model used to better understand things like Relativity.

It's been my experience that talking on the phone vs talking to a passenger seems much different. In trying to decide why it felt that way to me I concluded it is because the person on the phone is not sharing the driving experience with me and can distract me by continuing to talk when I need to concentrate on driving. A person in the car with me recognizes when I am dealing with a situation that requires my full attention, and thus quits talking for a moment.

Well, maybe you know better than me. I thought their goal wasn't to play mind games, but was instead to actually get the money.

Cyanobacteria wiped out much of the life on the planet during The Great Oxidation Event and brought on one of the earliest ice ages. When you are in the middle of chaos it is often difficult to step back and look at events in the context of the larger picture. Humans are doing the earth no favors now but you are looking at an extremely small event in the history of the earth. Had the cyanobacteria been exterminated due to how it was impacting life on earth, none of us would be here to ponder this question.

Hardly.

That may be true, but the taxes seem to cover more than just that extra cost, at least in England. "Fuel duty - a tax levied on a unit of purchased fuel - is charged on almost every liquid fuel that is bought and burnt in the UK. Duties are applied to petrol, diesel, bioethanol, biodiesel, LPG for transport use and oil for home heating. The tax raised goes into the general revenue “pot” , and is used to pay for the nation’s public services - schools, hospitals, etc. It is also used to pay the costs of the negative externalities that burning fossil fuels causes, such as the NHS costs society incurs in treating respiratory conditions caused by air pollution."

Well, if you are referring to my "high taxes" comment, I found this: "The Netherlands has the highest gas tax in the European Union, at €0.82 per liter ($3.69 per gallon). Italy applies the second highest rate at €0.73 per liter ($3.26 per gallon), followed by Finland at €0.72 per liter ($3.24 per gallon). The lowest gas tax is in Hungary, at €0.34 per liter ($1.49 per gallon), as the Hungarian rate is set in its domestic currency, the Forint, resulting in an average rate slightly below the EU minimum after exchange rate fluctuations. The next lowest are Bulgaria and Poland, both at €0.36 per liter ($1.61 per gallon)." https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/gas-taxes-in-europe-2022/ Average tax in the US on the other hand is around $0.50 per gallon: Gasoline Diesel Federal 18.40 24.40 Average of total state taxes 32.61 34.76 https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=10&t=5 If you are referring to the 'real' cost of the product, then if you are going to add in the negatives (road maintenance, global warming, etc.) then it only seems reasonable to adjust for the positives (quality of life, economic benefit, etc.) True, but you could also do that by mandating production of fuel efficient vehicles and EVs.

You are lying about things I've said. Retract the accusation or back it up with the proper quotations.

What in the fuck are you rambling about now? For someone who seems to wish to remain on this site for the long term, I can tell you from experience that your current behavior is not likely to be conducive to that goal.

Actually this is the first time your argument has been made clearly so that the rest of us can understand it. Thank you @exchemist.

I agree. But I disagree with your statement that it is cheaper "than it should be". There are many ways to increase sales of EVs and hybrids, or to reduce carbon in the air, that don't involve taxes on gasoline. No idea, but I was talking about the cost of gasoline.

I would argue the opposite. Gas is more expensive than it should be in many places. For example, the high price of gas in Europe is in large part due to taxes having nothing to do with the 'real' cost of the product.