geordief

Are you saying that because the democratic process is flawed and others' views may carry more weight and others less that there is less responsibility to cast one's vote ?(or to by that degree to abrogate one's credibility in consequential political discussions) Politicians, by the nature of their job carry more influence on voting intentions.Should they be disbarred from this function?(campaigning does actually stop in last few hours in some countries at least)

Well,same as here if people don't want to take the vaccine (they could import one if necessary) then they take the consequences. The blame would be taken from the shoulders of the "politicians" and the hospitals would be kept functioning if necessary by according second class status to those who did not "pull their weight" (they can also build new hospitals very quickly ,as we have seen-proper medical facilities I can't say) It is not a big ask to ask the population to take a vaccine if the alternative is one's neighnours foregoing medical treatment for other illnesses. Of course if they don't source the best vaccines for their citizens then they invite criticism from them. Perhaps I am over simplifying....

You are just one person among the millions of others.Why do you feel your vote should have a disproportionate effect? You can't even be sure your vote was well enough informed or well enough intentioned (as an aside) Did the combatants in WW2 or Ukraine just give up because they could not make the final difference personally?

Is that not just a question of getting past the elections and changing policy then?

Strange though that both China and Russia claim,from what I have heard to have become disillusioned with the West(along with many of our own citizens) Do they feel that gives them some sort of moral high ground even though they are sitting in the moral gutter?(I concede that the Chinese CP has lifted its citizens out of poverty and that Russia has ,like every state legitimate security interests) I thought both China and Russia have recent histories of personality cults.They seem to have a tolerance for them.Russia may well be on the way down but I don't see that with China (the future,particularly ours is a very cloudy territory)

Couldn't we all? If anti democratic regimes become the norm then China will be primus inter pares and the democracies may eventually only survive under its suffrance And the US may not remain the bulwark we might wish for if the dice fall the wrong way there (it was a land of hope and aspiration and may fall off its bike when that well is poisoned) How long will Europe et al survive if they are cast adrift?

Some people are more or less considerate twds others and I imagine that they carry that approach into their dealings with the community at large . How do groups of people who have committed crimes of self interest feel about an idea like democracy?(it could be -maybe is, a social study) Criminals are often used in battles against the common enemy as in the Sicilian mafia against the Nazis and now Putin releasing prison inmates and other crazies against Ukraine. Anyway, my idea for democracy is that everyone's existence merits some consideration (if welcomed).We are all members of the club and should not be ignored.

I wouldn't have referred to her as that when she was alive and certainly not now. "The queen"does fine .We don't call TFG "the president " do we unless we want to lick his b...ls.?

You are right . We need balance and the emotional steplock is sickening. I can still hear them on the radio referring to the dead woman as "Her Majesty"

British Republicans will not wish him luck but an end to the monarchy.

Nobody got into bed with them There was always a legitimate hope that Russia could evolve into a half decent political system and ,as with China the hope was that change might come through osmosis. Everyone was taken off guard by this invasion. It may have a silver lining (not for the Ukranians) of both showing their real face and giving the climate change measures due urgency rather than relying on a boiled frog ,(lobster?) response. Easy to criticise Germany but they changed their Ostpolitik policy very quickly -and they are very much in the Russian nationalist's line of fire ("march to Berlin" they were boasting before the invasion)

Still has to be done.If the two party system had its merits it has run out of road and some sort or a more proportional representative system should replace it. Maybe not the top priority and will never happen if Trump returns to power.

The content was good. The delivery always has me on edge but that was OK too,this time.He cleared his throat 3 times at first and I was worried there was a problem but it was plain sailing after that. Can there be any bipartisanship if electoral reform is put on the table?(does the Alaskan system hold any promise by diluting the "them or us"chances of election?)

When I went to the States I was questioned at Kennedy airport on the way in from Europe and again at San Diego returning from Mexico. It was the same eagle eyed immigration official who recognized me 6 months later across the crowded concourse as I tried to avoid his notice. Luckily my papers were in order as he had docked my visa stay length the first time as he suspected I was seeking work in the country. He wasn't a clone and neither was I .I doubt we would recognize each other 50 years later.🙂 I was dumb enough to suppose TFG had indeed left the docs in that disorder so perhaps he needed to address this as he looked bad in the eyes of his equally dumb followers(not all as dumb but some are and he still needs their support)

Wasn't the search recorded by video cams? Is it actually relevant whether or not the docs were found scattered as shown or laid out as pictures after being taken out of the boxes? Have to admit it seemed to me as if Trump had been playing with them in his baby pen ,but I have such a low opinion of him that was my instinctive impression. I do hope no witnesses have been identified at this stage as one poster was intimidating earlier. "Mundane" ffs 🤔

Is a point object the excitation of its relevant field? And does excitation equate to "interaction " ?Do those concepts just overlap -are they distinct? (Apologies if I am shifting goalposts but they do say that the definition of madness is to keep repeating the same mistake over and over and not making different mistakes one after the other )😉 Edit:I had all kinds of physical objects in mind and assume that there must be a connection between macro and micro objects.

Well ,I thought I had been observing (trying to ,anyway) the distinction insofar as my level of education allows I am very interested in "events"as physical interactions and I do not understand why it should not be possible to view physical objects as being "composed" of them.(I realize I will be as wrong as I normally am but am I any way close to how the models are to be interpreted?) Of course a physical object is composed of smaller objects but as we get to the fine (fundamental?) detail is it not possible that we are just "looking" at interactions? I have heard it said "everything is fields" Are physical objects the result of those fields (self?) interactions and do those interactions "make up" what we observe as physical objects on the macro and micro level?

Including any quantum effects? (Not that I can think of any)

What about 2 events ,one of which is outside the light cone of the other. Eg I cannot today have any causal effect on the life SwansontT's activities yesterday. Can I not say that there is no connection between an event in my today and your yesterday? But I can't extrapolate that to SwansontT yesterday having no connection to my today even if no interaction occurs?(is it enough that the probability of an interaction is not zero?)

Are not all objects created one event at a time? And the spacetime interval (as I have learned) is independent of frame of reference. -not strictly relevant ,but might it show that the objects are composed of "events" ,the connections between which all frames can agree on?

Well ,apart from the terms used can we say that it is meaningless to talk about the separation or distance between physical objects except in a context of a physical connection between them?** Can we even say that ,if no interaction occurs then there is no connection at all btw the objects? **(btw can we say -or define it so - that all physical objects are composed of "events"-perhaps not "events" as commonly used to mean coordinate points on a 4d spacetime diagram but as actual physical interactions)

As a measure of a distance between objects does the term ,"event separation " mean exactly the same thing as "the spacetime interval"? (as the terms are commonly used) Do physical objects only exist in the framework of the events that went into making them up and changing them?

So the irregularity in the day to day advances in the times of the high tides would be down to the local topography? Otherwise ,if it was just the supposition of the lunar and solar effects it would seem to me that the changes would be smoother I can still discern a pattern in the irregularity where I am in that the time interval between the high tides seem to alternate between a greater and a smaller amount (although the exact numbers do not repeat) But that would presumably be a different pattern in different areas

I operate as a rule of thumb that the time of high tide advances by about an hour from one day to the next. Not exactly of course -a bit under the hour I think . I don't understand ,though why these time differences are irregular. One day it might be around and hour and the next day it could be about 45 minutes. What causes this irregular pattern? Are the tides are part of a chaotic global maritime weather system?

Makes a change for Nazis to be the scapegoats rather than the scapegoaters.