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If it wasn't for the laughing face emojis, it would ALL be unsupported garbage. How are we supposed to discuss this, by waving our hands back at you ?

Mechanical drve platters are typically made of aluminum, or glass for 2 1/2 in laptop drive. The magnetic medium used to coat the platters, and store information, used to be a Cobalt alloy. I haven't used mechanical drives in the last decade, so I don't really know what current magnetic medium is used.

Except that tectonic plate motion has been measured, and verified by experimental evidence. Planetary expansion has not been measured, or experimentally verified. And although 'pushed' by one of the best artists to draw Batman comics ( how is that for expertise ), is pure nonsense. Finding extremely large Black Holes could mean that they have always been that large, and formed by a mechanism we don't know of, yet. The expansion of the universe, since the recombination era ( before which stellar BHs could not have formed ), is estimated at 1040 times. If that were the bause of the claimed BH expansion, it would put an upper limit on how much they could have expanded. Yet there is observational evidence of many bilion solar mass BHs. This suggests there are other mechanisms for BH formation.

I appreciate the sentiment, but ... Thank you for finally focusing on the REAL problem… reminding us all to ignore the pursuit of respect and acceptance for transgender pronouns and to instead direct our energies toward the REAL victims in all of this… those poor souls who refuse that acceptance and respect of pronouns and force transgenders individuals into inaccurate binary buckets. You’re a hero sir for standing up so passionately for them. You argue as a person who never considers the possibility that his opinion might be wrong. As a result, you never feel the need to examine, and understand other opinions. You immediately feel the need to label those holding such opinions as bad people, deserving of what they get. Meanwhile, you have simply misunderstood what their opinion actually is. I am not putting anyone in buckets, nor victimizing anyone. My position is that what I think, and what I say, is up to me, and not anyone else. If that right is taken away from people, how can they voice their identity ?

Why the need for so many labels ? ( and more importantly, will anyone be offended if I don't use the proper label ? 😁 ) I am a simple scientist; until there is evidence for something, I don't have a need to 'imagine' that something is real. Some others find great confort in 'imagining' something for which there is no evidence. To each their own.

It is not just single quantum particles that, when fired one at a time, will merge all those detection dots into an interference pattern. You can have multiple single quantum particle detection experiments, all over the country, separated by hundreds of miles, and when you overlay all those single particle detection dots, you get an interference pattern. When I first learned of that, I found it amazing. Yet some people still claim quantum particles MUST be either a particle or a wave.

Thank you INow. I didn't realize you held me in such high esteem. Or should I go see a doctor to diagnose my reading comprehension problems ? 😄 😄

Is 'cancel culture' really a thing ? As Phi explained, it is basically about making a choice. The bigger problem, which transforms a simple thing like making a choice, into something dangerous is social media culture. It is social media, the biggest 'social engineering' experiment of the last 20 years that is weaponizing something we all do as a matter of fact. It eems like social media amplifies all the worst elements of a society. The more controversial your views, the more exposure those views get.

The difference is that only one side tries to shut the other side's opinions down with claims of ignorance, bigotism, shutting down lectures/talks, and getting the opposing opinion fired. So which one is extreme ???

Not at all. But you did mention that the 'adversarial system' works best, and I provided some examples where it didn't. Would you be happier with the American Civil War ?

With how many victims ? ( but we both know this is off topic. Revolutions are never a good way to solve society's problems )

You haven't been playing with a full deck for a while. Did you read Zap's post, where he made comparisons to M McConnell and Supreme Court nominations ? Or are your blinders on all the time ?

But you've already made up your mind that any I name, have lost their jobs for being ignorant bigots, not just for being labelled ignorant bigots. That is your problem; that you misinterpret a different opinion as being ignorant and bigoted. People are allowed to have their own personal opinion, not one foisted on them by someone else. IOW, you get to see reality as you observe it yourself, not what someone else wants you to see. ( for the 37th time )

OK Zap, I can make an absurd comparison too ... The French Revolution, the October ( actually November ) Revolution of the Bolsheviks and the Nazi 'night of broken glass', involved all of those things. How did the 'adversarial system' work out for those societies ?

I thought that's what I said. It helps if you think before you post. Nobody loses their job for being discourteous. People DO lose their jobs after being labelled ignorant bigots. See the difference ? Or should I send a PM explaning further ?

Yup. If someone asks me to call them Fred, or even Ze ( short for Zeke ), I don't have a problem, it is so written on their licence and ID cards, after all. But if someone chooses to make up a pronoun like 'Ze', because that is how they feel, or their way of 'standing out' in a crowd, I should be able to choose NOT to be courteous, and suffer the consequences of being discourteous. However, what is happening is that immediately the label ignorant bigot gets thrown out, and we all know the ramifications and repercussions of being so labelled. Nobody makes the news for being discourteous, and very few lose their jobs for it. That is not the case for people with different views who get labelled ignorant bigots. is it ? Lets stop pretending.

Would you call me an ignorant bigot, or cause me to lose my job, if I called you 'Fred' ?

I believe I'm starting to be.

That is incorrect. You were using incorrect science. Frequency is cycles per unit time. The 'space' these cycles occur in is actually the time domain. If you shorten the TIME that these CYCLES occurr in, you get a blue-shift, or increased frequency. So yes, if you detect a frequency change between two heights in a potential well ( from the same source ) it has to be due to a change in the duration of the time unit between each cycle. Either a lengthening ( dilation ) or shortening ( contraction ). Again you risk being shut down for using incorrect science.

Ahhh, but that's exactly the point. I'm only deciding for MYSELF. You want to decide for EVERYONE ELSE. Maybe you don't understand the meaning of force/coercion. I can pressure you to do all sorts of things. I could label you ignorant/bigoted and besmirch your professional reputation, simply for having the 'unfashionable' opinion, and you could lose your job. I don't see that as moving goalposts; I see it as force/coercion. Again, you are fine with calling anyone who doesn't believe there are any 'Ze' identities in the homo sapiens species, a racist or bigot, vilifying them, causing them all sorts of distress, and possibly having them lose their job, yet, you don't think it is 'helpful' to call someone who thinks he is a 'ze' delusional, as that might hurt their feelings. I think I need to mplore you. Please brother. Help me understand why and how you can have such double standards.

So you think it is a fantasy that people who have opposing opinions are labelled ignorant and bigoted ? Yet its happened in this very thread. And you might think this fantasy I'm living in makes me delusional. Just like I might think someone who refers to themselves as 'Ze', is. So, contrary to previous statements, you've no problem calling out delusional people. Or maybe you're of the opinion that only those delusions you agree with are valid.

That cuts both ways ... If you want a positive outcome from a discussion, forcing/coercing them to say what you want to hear, is not productive.

Let us further examine these statements. But they seem to know that IT IS a female that LOOKS like a male. ?Yet, oddly enough, they can tell that a change has happened, and can even identify the markers that allow for such a change. So are you really going to tell me Biologists don't know whether a member of a higher order species is ( currently ) male or female ? If we were having this discussion in a bar, with a couple of beers, you would be almost laughing when you made that argument, as you realized it would not be taken seriously. But again, that is not what I have a problem with. I will not be forced to say what someone else wants me to say. ( unless I want to become President, become a citizen, or take a certain job )

Yeah. Some people have all the 'tolerance' in the world, if you believe you are a 'Ze'. Yet none whatsoever if you believe that person is not a 'Ze'. Maybe Peterkin can inform me that I don't know what 'tolerance' of someone else's ideas means.

Of course you can refuse to do any of those things. And you won't be called an ignorant bigot, or have some 'holier-than-thou' internet poster make fun of your spelling mistakes, question your intelligence/communication skills, and call that a valid rebuttal of your argument. And no, I did not give you the demerit; I prefer to argue with ideas rather than demerit points.