Phi for All

These are personal issues, and I have no problem with Moreno attempting them on their own, wherever they may find themselves. Where I think they need help is with those areas where their personal behavior overlaps with the expectations of a society. It's pretty clear they have no interest in being inclusive wrt the way groups of people interact with them, and still hold on to a very primitive, tribal mentality when it comes to those who look different.

His MO is to kick you, then scream to his base about how unreasonably angry you are about it, and how you should really get some help for that. We need reform NOW! Every day, as an older white male in the western US, I go through my life with certain expectations. I know if I walk confidently into any situation, and do the things I'm supposed to do (smile, make small talk, stay within the lines, speak up but not TOO loudly, act nice, don't be or say anything awkward, fill out the form, drive on the right, nod with respect, keep it clean, please and thank you), my society will reward me with successful outcomes to my endeavors. The whole system gives me big kiss on the lips every time I do things right. I put in a quarter, and the machine give me candy. But the system doesn't work that way if you aren't a white man. Imagine doing all the right things, but you get glares instead of smiles, distrust instead of doors thrown wide, and sneers instead of any sense of community. Imagine having to always do more than some others to get the same or worse results. Imagine pushing the buttons in the proper sequence just like the white guy in front of you, but you don't get the same access he did. You put in your quarter, the machine keeps it, and you get squat. I think we need to skip the seeds somehow this time. We need a single big tree with lots of room for branches maybe, and a much broader, healthier system for the roots.

In the US at least, those wrong reasons became the blueprint for a flawed process that skews the way the system is applied. And I think the wrong foot was placed with the assumption that the native Americans, the poor immigrants, and the freed slaves held a LOT of resentment over unfair treatment at white hands. Leadership at the time reacted like oppressors, rather than like people interested in forming community.

In the US, police forces were established before the Civil War (Boston was the first, in 1838) mainly to handle perceived native and immigrant problems. After slavery was abolished, the model was expanded to include perceived threats from free black men.

The whole "bad apple" argument is also a distraction. In the US, it's used by the far right the way they use "lone gunman" to describe a white terrorist. People who espouse this concept are helping bad programs and policies continue. The focus should be on methodology and practice, not on individual police officers. This is a systemic problem.

Speaking with one unified voice often sounds just like angry slogan chanting. It's not their fault that you're smarter and want deeper reasoning than their average spectator. Speaking as if to a child is about as inclusive as you can expect anybody to be in a protest where safety is a concern. I don't see the problem here, MigL.

XVV has been suspended for 3 days for abusive language. If you aren't happy here, inflict yourself elsewhere. If you stay, be civil.

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Pass by, relative to the rest of the galaxy? Sure, we'd practically have to duck. But if you were to tell a friend you were going to "pass by" his house later, and then only got within four million miles, well....

Bmpbmp1975 has been banned for spamming, after an obscene number of warnings. We only needed one thread misunderstanding vacuum decay, thanks very much.

Well, that's completely different. Your mistake was posting in the Speculations section. It's assumed you're challenging mainstream explanations when you post there, but this sounds like you have some gaps in your knowledge to fill, and are more interested in asking questions than asserting something new. I'll move this to Earth Sciences. Can we assume you've read the Wikipedia article on Pangaea? Plate tectonics would be relevant as well.

This is a science discussion forum. NOBODY is interested in your altered state musings. We want something besides your incredulity to persuade us your idea has merit. "Makes sense to me" is just about the opposite of doing science. Do you have any evidence, or critical reasoning that supports your ideas? Otherwise it's just a wild guess, and that's really not interesting. Have you studied plate tectonics? It's fascinating stuff.

We have rooms, and they're at least 6 feet apart. Sorry if a couple of guys virtually hugging gives you a strange, self-induced feeling.

OK, sit quietly for a bit, and close your eyes if it helps. I want you to focus on a warm spot on your back. That's my virtual hand, signalling the beginning of the hug. Now feel it spread as I clasp you to me with both arms. It's like a tingling warmth, and it moves as I describe my hand moving. It's like a hand-sized ray of sunlight is shining on your back in the middle of winter. Unfortunately, I can't extend the sensation to include the little pat on the back I usually give with a hug. These strange, self-induced feelings stop short of being percussive, or in any other way physical.

It's abuse in interpreting the Constitution, plus a lack of checks on presidential power to balance the conventions Trump has flouted (not putting his business in a trust, blatant nepotism, ignoring the emoluments clause, etc), in addition to the corruption you suggest. What the ballsy politician needs to suggest is that we've forgotten there are things money shouldn't be able to buy, like honor, scholastic merit, and votes. That's really the definition of corruption here, where money becomes "the root of all evil". It's not evil to buy the right things, it's evil when you use money to stifle the process for your competitors, or make it favor you above others. It's evil to use your money to change public opinion through misinformation and misrepresentation, which is exactly what so many lobbyists have become so good at. The average American has little intellectual defense against the PhDs of Spin.

There's nothing new about being able to isolate a particular sensation. Please read ALL the posts in this thread. Science discussion forum. Can you define what you mean by this? Do your pupils change from being round? OMG, nobody here would call it that. We don't like guesses, or new age woo, or nebulous phrasing. And we can be real jerks about it, but we just don't like science being misrepresented by pop-sci descriptions of the natural world.

I read something about Bush's surgeon general being considered a laughingstock because he had the proper reaction to an outbreak back in 2005. He reacted correctly, but got the Chicken Little treatment.

alpha015 has been suspended for a month for repeatedly spamming their YouTube channel. We're a DISCUSSION site, in case I didn't say it before.

Many humans also have a high degree of intelligence, and overcome regrettable stances with critical thought and reasoned action.

! Moderator Note Thanks for understanding and moving on from this site. A piece of advice I'm pretty sure you'll ignore? If you truly want to help, you should stop acting like you work for a troll farm. Your posts are laden with conspiracy and misinformation, and your further claims of medical professionalism are untrustworthy. Best of luck elsewhere!

This is evidence of the grim effectiveness of Trump's flood-the-zone-with-shit strategy. Expectations are so low wrt his moral character that pointing out just one of his obvious conflicts of interest is met with calls of Bias! from his supporters. Apparently his behavior is perfectly fine, and if we'd just get over our dislike of the man himself, we'd all see that. It supposedly has nothing to do with how we feel about lies and corruption. Huh.

You're so negative! Why can't you say, "It's amazing how consistent you've been in defending your perspective"? Why can't you say it like that? I've been right a lot. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.