Phi for All

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It wasn't that long ago that he called himself fiscally conservative and socially liberal. He's proven he's barely socially conscious, let alone liberal, and also that he's not conservative about anything. He knows the GOP is unlikely to raise his taxes, and they certainly won't set a progressive limit on his personal earnings.

Musk is a wealthy, right-wing extremist who easily embraces conspiracy and is only out for himself. All American capitalists at that level couldn't care less about how their workers are faring in life. He's almost uncaring enough to run for office. Maybe 2028, for the MAGAQANON party.

! Moderator Note I usually move threads that veer non-mainstream to Speculations, but capital-G God can't go there, so this conversation is over. If this is the kind of reasoning you plan on using in discussions, it's not welcome here. Nobody has that kind of time to waste.

Money blinds people when it's always the focus. It's like looking into the sun for clarity. The People haven't yet figured out how to elect a politician that works for the People instead of for the wealthy. Most still think a businessperson makes a good leader, when they're really focused on making business even more profitable. So many Americans have tried to support this political system in good faith, only to be preyed upon by extremists looking to twist the advantages and take what belongs to others. We don't get any benefits from being productive any more, other than staying out of our own prisons. I think there are quite a number of "Americans" who've already sold out, who never liked democracy in the first place, and are looking to any number of authoritarian alternatives to take the place of a system they see as weak. These folks don't think we can fix it, and want to tear it down, which would make everything ripe for the authoritarian takeover they envision. These are the ones that scare me. I don't know what to do with that kind of dumb. These folks want there to be no public schools because they went to bad public schools, and skoff at the idea of making better ones.

And in a two party system where the media entertains rather than informs, both parties are using this bumper sticker. For perspective here, in Colorado we have a Senate race where the incumbent Democrat is leading the Republican challenger in most polls by 7-10 points at least. FOX News ran a piece over the weekend claiming their pollsters show the race as a complete toss-up. Each party hires private firms aligned with them to run "independent" polling, and then gets to report that to the media. And ultimately, it's campaign donations from the People that help misinform the People on this grand scale. A stupid system for an uneducated, uninformed, unprepared populace.

Is it a PC or is it a laptop? Laptops usually have a built-in touch pad that acts as a mouse. If not disabled, your thumbs can run across it and cause the cursor to move.

You're apparently easily amused. Theories and models are NOT proof of anything. This seems poorly derived. What does one have to do with the other? Brevity is often inadequate.

I'm fairly certain he's waiting to see if the midterms get some of his SecState candidates elected, and how the non-MAGA Republicans vote. He knows he needs some of these battleground states to ignore the votes of the People and seize the electors to hand him those states (like Nevada). I think he also wants to know how much of a hold he still has on them. I don't think he'll run unless he's fairly certain of winning. From all accounts, a big part of the stolen election scam is him refusing to be cast as a loser. And there's the money. I've heard a candidate for office can keep extra funds for their next campaign, so I'm sure TFG has a steady income for life from donations even if he never actually holds office again, but continually hints at it and holds rallies and forms leadership PACs and supports other candidates. This may be why he really fears the 1/6 Committee's findings, because I'll bet they can take that campaign money away from him if he's no longer eligible to hold office.

I was trying to explain your list of incorrect assumptions, but obviously clarity is not your aim. I withdraw my attempt to help. I think that's a red herring. I commented about the idea of Doctor Derp's capital G God making imperfect humans who would evolve to eventually fix their flaws. It was a new argument to me, and makes less sense the more I think about it. Evolution just doesn't work like that. So instead of accepting the evidence that changes in allele frequency within a population over vast amounts of time produce the results described by the Theory of Evolution, you think I should believe there's an unobservable, omnipotent, and omniscient deity making it all work? Amazing patience this god must have to make it all look like it took billions of years when they could have whipped it up instantly!

Failing to achieve a "pinnacle" isn't a flaw? Interesting. How about our many physical design flaws, like our eyes, our backs, our teeth, our knees, our misrouted nerves? This is the way I lean, of course, but I don't need a god to have created this life. I think this is an assumption on your part, and I think it's mostly wrong. Don't you mean atheists discussing evolution for such a long time?

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Peterkin put a colon before listing the incorrect assumptions. I missed it the first couple of times I read it, too. This is the first time I think I've heard the argument that God purposely made flawed humans with the idea of using evolution as a mechanism to fix them eventually. What a mysterious way to create something!

All of them are incorrect assumptions not supported by evidence.

This is the Physics section, and punching is kinetic energy, so if we know how many joules a single punch generates, we can multiply to cook a chicken. For the actual physicists, it might be more of a challenge (and funnier) to figure out how hard a single punch would have to be in order for air resistance to cook the chicken.

If you can't be civil, NOT posting is the wisest course.

You're right. I amended the title. Also, McCarthy said this in the summer of 2021. And it was a gavel McCarthy referred to, not a hammer.

The connection to what, idiocy? This is well-documented: Reporters think McCarthy is dumb. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/06/03/kevin-mccarthy-washington-media-taboo-intelligence-00036894 The Democrats know McCarthy is an idiot. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3651677-gallego-hard-to-imagine-someone-as-dumb-as-mccarthy-being-speaker/ Even TFG thought he was stupid, and he should know. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-thought-kevin-mccarthy-was-dumb-and-annoyingly-needy-book-2022-7 McCarthy, McConnell, and Graham are extremely despicable politicians who've consistently ignored the needs of the People in favor of keeping the wealthy wealthy. The Republican Party is full of police extremists, wealth extremists, religious extremists, anti-science extremists, and anti-democracy extremists. I'm not surprised at all that a party with so many idiots in it would choose McCarthy to be Speaker. He's the poster child for ignorance, division, and poor taste, and his constituents love it so they must share many of those qualities. Disgusting words from disgusting people who know that other disgusting people are eating it up with a spoon. I wouldn't dream of hitting any of them with a hammer, and I'm ecstatic that there is this difference at least between us.

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What did the manufacturer, or the company you bought the device from, say about the lack of software?

It didn't even take an hour to see that the "experiment" you're misrepresenting is about virtual photography, not actual femto cameras. Why have you wasted 5-6 years on it?

You want us to use one speculation as evidence for another speculation? That methodology lacks even a minimum amount of rigor.

Except none of this is happening. None of this rant is true. Nobody is mistreating you. Nobody is insulting anybody. Nobody is dismissing anything. We have the results of the Michelson-Morley experiment that should have detected an aether if there was one, but it didn't. Nothing else we observe supports the concept either. So we use Einstein's work because it's a more accurate explanation of what's happening with light. If you could support the concept of an aether with some actual evidence, something beyond your assuredness and assertions, something that could be tested or reasoned with, we'd be happy to listen. Nobody is claiming to be "right", that's not how theory works. Evidence supports the best explanations, can't you see that? Where's your evidence?

! Moderator Note Any attempt to redefine a debunked theory is speculative, and needs evidence in support of it. I've moved this to Speculations, and now you need to defend the many assertions you've made in the OP, using mainstream science so this discussion might be elevated above talking about wild ass guesswork.