Phi for All

Excellent, thanks! We stopped buying Cheese Nips since orange cheesiness got such a bad name, and we need a new staff snack.

We shouldn't hire the ratcatcher who snuck all these rats in here in the first place.

Even something super simple, like spamban if links are posted in the first 5 posts would help a LOT. All of these are so obvious, it's hard to believe the software can't figure them out.

I already hate having to watch a YT video. We're a discussion forum, and I can't quote anything from it. I like reading, it keeps YOU honest. Videos make me think you're trying to earn views or you want to slip something shady past me. I also distrust your AI style. Again, it makes me think you're trying to pull a fast one with slick graphics and no meat whatsoever. Oh, and the model will follow later, always. You should also be drawing your own conclusions if you really understand it, not letting the language model interpret it's own mistakes.

As swansont said, where appropriate the math should be an easy way to support an idea, but there are other ways to model. Unfortunately, a lot of folks want us exposed to the whole idea at once so we take it in the way they imagine it. They don't like it when we take small bites and chew thoughtfully before replying, but that's really the only intellectually honest way to discuss ideas like this. Nobody wants to continue to scale the wall of text once they find flaws with the first few bricks. Fix these, please, and then we'll continue, thanks very much.

And if they can't provide these basics, they at least need to listen to criticism. Most of the references cited are bogus in my experience. If the poster hasn't bothered to check them, I think that's posting in bad faith. I've been rather stunned that nobody bothers to see if the LLM cited anything meaningful about their idea. The OPs should be excited to read mainstream material that supports them, but few seem to know what's in those citations.

Might take less time to do this than banning a bunch of accounts.

How can you tell a plumber from a chemist? Ask them to pronounce the word "unionized".

You're so welcome, I hope it revealed to you my attitudes towards generalizing me and deciding for me what I like.

I wanted you to answer a simple question I've posed. Your Truth isn't mine, so how can it be The Truth? You chose to post this instead, for which I have no reference or clarity. I don't think you argue in good faith, I think you ignore the tough questions. You have the day you deserve. You don't think Truth as an ideal is imposing a condition?! I suggest you look the word up, in a relevant context.

Redistribution assumes there are assets to be redistributed. That was sort of guaranteed when people earned a wage that covered more than the cost of living. It behooved the extremist capitalist to keep the worker/consumer relationship healthy so they could count on steady income from the working and middle classes. Now though, they don't seem to care much about that. Fuck consumer protections, force the middle and working classes to pay more in taxes while LOUDLY cheering to pay nothing yourself, and take away healthcare people already considered inadequate. I think the deportations are just another way to signal that they've militarized these capitalist efforts. They don't give a shit if you're brown or black, but their base does, and they're using that to mimic WWII Germany. It shouldn't be this hard to convince anybody that deporting central and south Americans is just the start, and those with wealth to confiscate who aren't willing to pay to stay will be next, especially if they don't get a chance to pay for due process. Jesus, TFG is talking about deporting citizens, not just those with no papers. Established citizens with generations of wealth, you don't see that as a grab for assets? It seems like another tool to me, perhaps one that will work better than those "far more effective" ways they've used before. Edit to add: Ah, the Secretary of Agriculture just figured it all out! The folks on Medicaid who need to show 80 hours of work are now expected to pick the crops going unpicked by deported migrant workers. Brooke Rollins is so happy the workforce will be 100% American!

It's not though. Your Truth isn't mine, so how can it be The Truth? I can bring in three other religion proponents who would all disagree with both of us. Is it true that the sun rises in the East every morning? No, not for some. Is it true that birds have wings that let them fly? Again, that's not true for some birds. I think any Truth you could tell me would involve you knowing something about your unknowable god. Zealotry ignores the ironic.

Maybe once, but it seems the gloves are off. We have masked men in military gear with questionable authority harassing ordinary citizens. We have politicians willing to grin in photo ops under headlines like "17 Million Americans Lose Health Insurance!" They behave as if the midterms won't take place. I think we may have reached some magic number only the oligarchs know and now they don't need consumers as long as they can grab up everything the consumers own. I'm still reeling from the idea that a lot of these corporations don't need people of color to make their sales forecasts, so they dropped their DEI programs VERY publicly. Then again, I thought it was good practice to pay people well for the job they do, so they can participate in their own economy, and everybody is happy. I didn't count on the fact that unhappy people work for less pay, don't complain as much, and spend even more money than happy people.

Sorry, but it doesn't work that way. Do any of your beliefs have the mountains of evidence and experiments supporting evolution? No, not even close. You have a feeling, but I know nothing has defeated the explanation I have so far. You are told how things are, I get to test them. Unfortunately, since you can't be bothered to study it, you'll never know how satisfying it is to TRUST the information you use, rather than hope it's correct, or have blind faith that it is. Science is testable. It's pretty easy. You avoid making conclusions you can't support. False is false, and it only takes one false to falsify any hypothesis. Just one and the idea doesn't work. Evidence that supports an hypothesis is treated as just that, support. Build enough support for an idea and if nothing can show that it's false, it becomes theory, the strongest explanations science has. And guess what? If you never call it true, you keep testing it, which either falsifies or strengthens the theory, but NEVER lets you simply assume it's "true" and move on. Rigor is a true friend of science, and the enemy of organized religions. The truth is NOT the opposite to something that's false. What you call truth is anything but, and is different for every person, so why even call it truth, or Truth with a capital T? Agreements works for me. One of the hallmarks of our species is our cooperative nature. No animals work together as well as we do on such scale. The best supported explanations of science are made EVEN STRONGER by consensus, which is arrived at through experimentation, which is based on the property of replication. I make an hypothesis, and to support it I devise an experiment to show what I mean, in a way that you or anybody else can duplicate exactly. We all run the same experiment, and if we all got the same results, we agree! How do you test your faith as rigorously? It's certainly not to be found in Bronze Age superstitions. You think this knowledge is some kind of bedrock, but you're willing to accept a supernatural explanation over what you can observe and test? You and I have a very different understanding of what bedrock is.

Grabbing assets is definitely part of the overall plan, since wealth is how they ultimately rank themselves, and how they remove others from the game. And more and more, the game seems to be aimed at total global collapse, leaving them holding as much as they can. Billionaire wealth rose by 121% in the last ten years, and it's clear they've got the stock market beat, since the best of the indexes only made around 77%. They're using their money to push the world to the brink, because they're ready for it, and will profit from all the chaos they're creating. Again, deportation just gives them another tool to take assets away from others to benefit themselves.

Science doesn't look for truth. Truth is too subjective, obviously, since you can believe what you believe is true and I can say it's not. Similarly, science in general isn't interested in "proof" either. Proofs are for maths and philosophy. Science looks for the best supported explanations. We CAN know what those are, as opposed to the "truth" from you or anyone else. Test an explanation mercilessly, examine every bit of evidence objectively, try to make it fail, assume it's wrong and try to show that. If it survives every test (only one fail is needed to show an explanation is false), then you can start trusting the explanation. You still can't say it's "true", but isn't trust an objective when it comes to knowledge?

I see it as the final quarter of the capitalist dream game. The average person never questions how it can be called an "economy" when it performs so poorly for most and so brilliantly for a few. The extreme capitalists, who we continue to allow to horde cash, are openly grabbing up what they can, and aren't bothering to hide the fact that it's coming from those who can least afford to have it grabbed. And an easy way to grab up what someone else built at no cost to yourself is to seize their assets and deport them. It starts with busboys and farmworkers, and then it will move on to fines that, if not paid, will result in seizure of properties. Eventually, he'll have so much precedent, he can go after anyone who opposes him.

That doesn't sound so baaaaaaad!

I had mistaken one bit for coiled wire, but I see it's holes in plexiglass or glass? And is that a crank handle fixed to the center? Perhaps an ashtray that removes it's own butts?

In addition to what studiot posted, the temperature of the butter can make a difference. Many recipes call for cold butter for extra flakiness.

I tried three times to get this: "Ode a un piccolo pezzo di stucco verde che ho trovato sotto l'ascella una mattina di mezza estate", before realizing it's not Vogon. It's from one of the Azgoths of Kria, the second worst poetry in the galaxy. "Putty" is the tough bit, seems to be an English thing. Italians call it mastic or stucco.

Apparently, the focus doesn't need to be great to make it dangerous.

Please be careful. The legal system in the US wants you to automatically think of these people as criminals, but many are only so because laws were created to trap them, or they weren't well represented during their time in court, or....

What IS that?! Are they trying to get you to return your recent purchase, like you didn't already skip them in your research to buy this one? The bots can't tell if a purchase is a simple replacement, either. Buy a shower curtain liner or a set of LED vehicle headlights or a quart of concrete patch and the bots treat you like you're going into business.

"We were sitting around the table talking about evolutionary pressures when this guy pulled out his podium and started a slide show!"