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Not a dog trained for Crufts then. Had no idea

Is the "frightened" dog part of the illusion? It can't see the "hole" can it?(especially from its direction)

Is there a limit to how small an interval that can be measured?- and is that for practical reasons or intrinsic reasons (ie there are no intervals below a certain size that could be measured even if we had the capability-which obviously we could not have since the spacetime interval is built into our measuring tools as far as I know) Or could we in theory build measuring tools (to measure time intervals) with unlimited capabilities so that the spacetime intervals themselves could be limitless small?

In practical terms do people who upload AI generated content get rewarded for their "content"? I recently looked through a supposed "Nov 30 episode of Kimmel" and it only became completely to me obvious in the comments that it was not genuine. I think it was Youtube and so they may have had ads and been paid for this misleading product. Music/art seems different but I guess those "content providers" get money out of AI plagiarisation. I hardly click on Youtube any more unless I already know what is inside.

"geplåstert" is Dutch-or bastardised? I found this ,anyway: "England around the 12th century, Plasterers (many of which were Italian) would mix wine or beer in with the plaster. It was felt the plaster would last longer..however the plasterers also didn’t mind a glass or two as well and this is where the saying “to get plastered” comes from."

Bob means drive(r) ? I like the Tiramisu we get in Lidl.(and elsewhere).

Debatable (a separate thread?)

Be careful.Screwdrivers can slip very easily.The glass itself is very slippy and you don't want the end of the screwdriver going into your wrist . It can be frustrating if you are not used to it and your attention can skip a beat. Maybe hold the jar upside down on a flat surface?

Yes ,I buy beetroot juice and a small amount drunk cold is quite nice. Except,a while back (perhaps I had the remains of a cold) I coughed up what looked like blood into the sink.It took me a while to realize it was beetroot juice lodged in my throat. And ,yes it does turn urine and stools red or pink quite promptly.

Looks a bit like an emasculator for animals.

Probably what was on my mind. Is it correct to say that there is no force in the universe that would be capable of achieving the same deformation of a nucleus ? (in a rest frame ,if that could apply as a description) Nothing that could conceivably ,as it were put the nucleus in a vice and squeeze it so that its shape was identical to relativistic length contracted?

If an object is moving at a significant (reativistic) velocity wrt a particular frame of reference then that frame will see it as length contracted in the direction of motion. Not only "see" it but the object will actually. be. length contracted in that frame of reference. (Hope I am correct so far) In the frame of the object itself no such contraction is observed or experienced. So my question is ,are there any objects where this lack of symmetry would be a problem? Are some objects required to be perfectly symmetrical along all 3 physical axes so that they could not physically exist "squashed up" in another frame of reference ? (I presume the answer must be "no".Was the question worth asking -or well put?)

I always make a small hole with a ( hopefully short) sharp knife if they are too tight. It may still require strength even after that. It also helps if hands and lid are very dry.

This seemed an interesting article yesterday .I wonder is there any connection to allergies? I have no allergies but my brother is intolerant to onions. Why some animals can eat poison and cheat deathCreatures consuming species that contain deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to stay alive.

Maybe a good attempt. Maths is an edifice of the mind but there are seemingly no(?) * physical objects that cannot be modelled entirely mathematically. And no thinking being could construct a mathematical model without recourse to information coming from the physicsl world. Do the uncertainty theorem and chaos theory belie that?

Does a materialist assert the primacy of physical objects over the ideas we can form about them? Are there attempts to form an interface between the two concepts? Might the one reality bleed into the other or can there be a model that subsumes both?

Well the first civil war as it affected the Canadian colonies then is described here (a bit of a syopsis) https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/american-civil-war It feels like ,if there is a second civil war in the States that Canada may not have the option of remaining neutral based on that precedent.. Interesting that there were sympathies in the colonies with the Confederates even though more "Canadians" fought for the North. (all new to me.I wish it didn't seem relevant) From the link apparently Ulysses S Grant was sympathetic to Manifest Destiny which laid claim to Canada.

I don't remember the thought that made me wonder this but it is the physicality of the situation that interested me. When the mind makes a "mistake" is there some kind of a mechanism that "misfires" and that vould ,in throry be shown to have so done? To my regret ,I was once asked ,in the interview to a university philosophy course what woild qualify as a wrong action and I replied that it depended on what the actor thought themselves (ie some kind of moral relativism) The follow up question was "Was Hitler right?" and I answered yes(obviously i disagreed with him but thought that he may have been "right on his own terms" Looking back,I was trying to impress in the interview -and I think I succeeded .I suspect some of them may have thought i did not go far enough. As regards the OP it seems to me that the "mechanism" that might ensure a "correct" perception just does not exist and I wonder if any consequences might flow from that. After all it seems to me that one of the main aims of a good life should be to correctly perceive the world /to look the world in the face and this might seem to undercut that effort. There is the third option of "I don't know" but do we only have that thought after the perception whilst our "instant" thought is to jump to one conclusion over the other Do we always "second guess" in practice? Is sometimes "second guessing" all we do and do our instant perceptions just take place in our subvoncious mind?

You walk down the road and mistake a flash in a dark corner as a knife and walk into the road to be run over by a car. Or you see the flash and do not mistake it for a knife and carry on walking. Are those 2 classes of thought ("wrong" and ""corrrct") or is that just a post factum categorization ? Is there any way ,even in theory by examining the physical structure of the brain and body that it could be possible to gauge whether or not the physicality of a thought lies in either category? Or is this just a question that can be asked but never answered other than to examine the consequences that flowed ? (and even then different observers will have different interpretations -if the person in the scenario was on their way to commit mass murder for example)

Venezuela,surely? Yes a fine passage,though. Always the ways with imperiums.It is how they print their passports

We will prevail with our "sens du drôle" !

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Shame it doesn't work ,then.

I suppose swansont is a "slipperyian".

When it comes to predicting physical outcomes in our(classical) universe is the spacetime interval the only tool that can be usefully so used? I also wonder whether there are other higher dimensional spaces (called Hilbert spaces?) that I suspect may be used to model other phenomena. If that is the case are there comparable tools for measuring distances in those spaces and would you be able to give me an example (or do they all just use the simple pythagorean system with extra dimensions?) Btw do any of those higher dimensional spaces include a time axis that works in the same (imaginary?) way as in Minkowski space? @MigL didn't see your post. Yes,angular distance seems like another way of doing things(does that work in spacetime?). Would that just be the same as polar coordinates,really?