Phi for All

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Here's a list of current bilateral and trilateral treaties that the UK and the US are partners on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_Kingdom–United_States_treaties What do you want them to agree to beyond all these?

I was being sarcastic, without emojis (I never learn!). Your history is a rich tapestry of civilized culture, and I hope you don't let it out of the control of the people/country/state. In the US, we'd have sold off Stonehenge to 3M. You're ripe for Amerifuckation, though. You have enough nationalists who're afraid of immigrants, you've already allowed private firms to infiltrate the NHS using the COVID-19 situation, and even the vaunted BBC is becoming a less-trusted source of honest journalism. If I were you, I'd stay on the watch for religious extremists, because they just bring the whole kettle to a boil. Are you starting to feel like the chaos is being baked in on purpose? Nothing allows for broad spectrum economic opportunities for the already wealthy than uncertainty and fear.

! Moderator Note Please only put Jokes in the Jokes section. If you have an idea you can support scientifically that isn't mainstream science, you can put it in Speculations. If you don't understand a particular bit of science, please ask questions rather than making up garbage. And nobody wants to waste their time discussing anything based on "imagination run wild" if it's not scientifically based. Anybody can have an off-the-wall idea, but that doesn't make them interesting. Science has a methodology to it that tries to remove wishful thinking and subjective bias, and it's been extremely successful, so we're going to be sticking with that method in conversations here.

The Scots and Welsh know the US would recolonize the UK. You spend far too much on public interests like healthcare, you only have like 50 billionaires, and your workers want fair accommodations as if they were really important. You participate far too much in your own economy with all that vacationing, and all that history is bogging you down with old buildings and protected reserves. We can show you how to pave over England's pleasant pastures so you can be just like us!

Both countries already talk about this long-standing alliance. How are you defining the term? Are you talking about more treaties between the 1st and 5th largest economies, or do you want England to be the 51st state?

There may well be a certain amount of incredulity built into the process (it's hard to imagine what hasn't been dreamed up yet). I think there's also an intellectually lazy path that tells some folks it's easier to claim that science is stagnating so they don't have to bother studying it at great length. It's so much easier to claim it's not worth your while than to actually learn it.

This is such a laughable statement that it makes me doubt you're here in good faith. You seem to like making super dumb assertions to get a rise out of folks. It's not interesting at all.

The title is interesting, but the OP is a junk argument. We're doomed to ride an unchanging carousel because we've repeated some mistakes? I wouldn't mind discussing the title in good faith.

Perception is NOT reality. Perception without understanding is a very weak form of observation.

For sockpuppetry, we usually use technical evidence like IP address matchups rather than obvious criteria such as focus on a particularly odd argument. Banning a sock means banning future accounts as well in many cases, so we want to make sure we get it right the first time.

! Moderator Note You should pick ONE of these things to discuss, preferably something science based. Your opening post should set the tone for a conversation about a specific topic.

Scientific predictions disagree.

It's equally easy to feel with your heart that things DO exist, and it solves the mystery of your observed interactions. And there's the added benefit of not destroying much of the universe with your puffs of logic.

It's not a "fact" that evolution doesn't work the same today, in fact that's completely wrong. Creation "scientists" also use arguments with no testable hypotheses, and insist on solutions that are outside of what we observe in nature. Long before any of the Abrahamic religions messed with early humans we were experiencing a huge surge in genetic diversity due to successful populations all over the globe. It's been that way for 10,000 years at least, and our modern world is even more populous and diverse. If I were you, I'd never use "fact" and "creationism" in the same argument.

! Moderator Note Can you explain this for science discussion WITHOUT the video? Part of our rules state that we don't want to worry about wasting our time on someone who just wants YT video hits for their channel. Videos are problematic when it comes to discussion because referencing visual information means we have to watch your video over and over again, something we didn't want to do in the first place. Videos can be highly deceptive. And we can read so much faster than we can watch. If the members are willing to talk about your idea, I'm willing to let that happen, but it's against our rules to make it mandatory to watch a video in order to participate in the discussion. So can you give us a written overview, or should this be a discussion for another site? I'll be removing the video shortly.

It's a marginal pun to begin with (Messapic is an extinct language, and the made-up "Marsupic" isn't even that close), made almost incomprehensible by poor formatting and extraneous grammar distractions (the converse?! Dislcaimer?!), along with a redundant, sideways photo of the whole thing written by hand. It must be one of those scratch your head, paleo-Balkanic language jokes rather than the laughy kind.

Are you confusing the smaller parietal lobes and cerebella of Homo Neanderthalis with an inability in Homo Sapiens Sapiens to picture something in their minds? This was throwing everybody off, because even if it's unexplained that doesn't mean it isn't real, just unexplained, like a UFO is real but unidentified. It's also a bit disconcerting when you start claiming you know things about "100% of cave people". There ARE some things you can generalize about all the members of a select group, but not things like how they thought or the way they experienced their environments. That's all very subjective.

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As I understand the HUP, if you're trying to determine the position of an electron, you need a photon to collide with it and travel back to the device you're using to measure it. The photon imparts some of its momentum to the electron, so the more accurately you measure it's position, the more uncertain you are about its speed, and vice versa. Trying to be more accurate about the electron's speed means you can't be as certain about where it is.

We've created a LOT of tools since we created the first ones. Nothing supernatural about any of them.

We have so many Republican Representatives now who openly oppose our own system of government, yet they take the salary as they work to ensure the system doesn't work. Traitors, white supremacists, and Russian money launderers are winning elections, so we have to pay them to work against us. And they consider themselves the REAL Americans! As always, as they reduce the effectiveness of our government by insisting it needs to shrink, privately owned alternatives are the only solution offered. We don't have purely publicly owned resources in the US anymore. Everything is about making insultingly enormous profits and legislation that makes high-level corruption legal. Forgive me if I don't stand, Mr Speaker. I've read the articles from journalists I trust who think you're one of the dumbest people in Congress, and it seems like you had to make some dumb deals to get where you are.

! Moderator Note This is fallacious reasoning, and is incredibly difficult to deal with in a science discussion. Can you please do more than stick your fingers in your ears and talk louder? People are trying to engage with your premise and are having difficulty with your lack of supportive reasoning.

If they answered you and were polite about it, I don't think you can go wrong with something like, "Thanks so much for your time, I really appreciate it."