Phi for All

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.

"Now we're favored guests, treated to the finest in beverages that make you blind!" -- Malcolm Reynolds, Firefly

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.

Does the Judging part of INFJ also include feeling judged?

Because it describes the interaction between two masses. But gravity isn't just a force, it's also an effect of space and time, sort of built in to the universal system.

The only permits I saw involved making ethanol for fuel. If you know about any permits that allow one to have a boutique distillery, please link to them. That would help us avoid breaking our own rules.

There should be a way to talk about this that doesn't fall afoul of our "don't discuss illegal activities" rule. It's legal in the US to make a certain amount of wine and beer for personal consumption. Perhaps the thread can focus on putting together a stance on why or why not the laws on distilling spirits should be changed?

It might seem this way, but people respond to learning situations in many different ways. I've known people who learn better in classroom situations as opposed to one-on-one tutoring. People who have a competitive streak don't always do well when there's nobody else to play off of. Tutoring is wonderful, but for some it can put a lot of pressure and focus on them.

Why would it? Why wouldn't a theory of everything be like any other theory, constantly being tested and upgraded as new information emerges? Stop thinking of it as an assumption (a given), because it's not. Theory is a powerful tool specifically because it's NOT a proof. A theory is always being challenged, and it always has to show that it's still the explanation with the most evidence to support it.

I used to place a great deal of importance on listening to candidates debate each other, but even our debates have become pointless. Many of these people running for office are unqualified to represent their constituency, yet they've learned how to sound-bite their way through a debate so they sound smart and effective. The average debate listener today doesn't have the patience or understanding for nuts and bolts descriptions of a candidate's plan of action, so debates get judged by how many times your candidate "owns" the other with short, punchy points that don't really mean anything. Voters in the US still think they're they ones who deserve representation in government, while the politicians know that the average voter can't afford it. The politicians ignore most of the People and focus on representing corporation People and billionaire People.

It's clear most US voters haven't even glanced at how other countries actually require their leaders to have a mapped out plan of how they will accomplish what they promise. Our politicians are mostly populists, and populists tend to represent emotions rather than ideas, so we're supposed to vote for the person rather than the plan, then trust that person to plan well. It's got to be one of the dumbest systems, shaped and crafted with billions of dollars to do exactly what it does, whatever that is. You are so right. The Republicans who live in southern Colorado and love their guns, or don't want the government to restrict what they can do on their land, have to vote for Lauren Boebert to represent those interests, so they're also voting for Christian nationalism, the destruction of democratic values, climate denial, avoiding equality issues, the stolen 2020 election, and whatever bizarre, ignorant, extremist, QAnon bullshit she thinks up. It's actually insulting to bricks to put her in the same league.

Frankly, it looks like a bunch of folks trafficking in sex with goats. The economy has taken center stage, and like most elections, folks are forgetting that Democrats grow the GDP about 1.6 times faster than Republicans, because the Republicans are better at claiming they do better with the economy. We continue to put politics into everything, 24/7/365. There's never a break from it. It's become the central hub for our Angertainment industry, which is also bleeding us dry and continuing to isolate people into ineffective little knots of resentment and pain. When the midterms are over, the next day the 2024 election starts. And as it consumes us, the process that governs us becomes more and more expensive to participate in. Crime is up, but we've always spent more to punish people than we spend to help them avoid being criminals, so that's probably just American business at work. It's also hard to stomach the supposed conservative right embracing radical elements that are probably responsible for rising crime, but it sure makes it easy to understand how it happened in Germany. Inflation is probably the biggest concern for voters, but I don't think they've listened to what economists have advised for quite a while. Many haven't figured out that putting businesspeople in political roles doesn't help the economy as much as it helps those businesspeople. Election integrity perception, thanks to TFG, is abysmal. Actually, I'll loop many Republicans into that crime as well. They continue to claim concern over voter fraud, and whine about the Constitution while actively trying to destroy the democracy it describes.

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Not at all, since Vatican City believes there is a god, but scientists know there's no free energy. Talking to thermodynamics deniers is much more frustrating. They insist there's free energy that hides itself from people inversely based on the quality of their physics education. The less you've studied, the more of it there is out there.

This is a reasonable stance, but you're assuming early scientists weren't methodical, and you're ignoring the next step. Since every possibility can't be right, a scientist must start removing the ones they know won't work from the list of all possibilities. And that's what mainstream science is, the list of remaining explanations that match experiment and observation of the natural world after millions of scientists have worked their entire lives making sure these explanations are trustworthy.

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Why give credit to gods when it was probably your doctors and whoever designed your car that truly helped you survive?

Could you talk about movement without space? Perhaps the problem is trying to think of only one part of the spacetime continuum. Three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate can describe where and when any event happens.

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