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He renewed calls tonight for infrastructure investment, $15 minimum wage, labor unions protection legislation, climate change jobs, and more. Let’s get to work. Doing nothing is not an option. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/upshot/biden-economic-plan-chart.html There’s also education funding directed to community colleges, free preschool, affordable childcare, and National paid family leave. If even 1/3 if what he proposes gets done it will fundamentally transform the United States in ways not seen since the New Deal and WWII.

Yes, but what about: Order !! . . . .. . . . . . !!! . .. . and . .. . rec omm end . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . ??? ????? 😵

OMG. Please go away.

Well, I suppose if you ignore reality and discard physics, then anything you can imagine is possible. It also moves you rapidly from the realm of nonfiction into fiction.

I hear that eating paste and paint chips with lead in them generally leads to similar outcomes.

Don’t laugh too hard if you have asthma, but when I eat too many chilies it’s plasma

This is an excellent point worthy of a response. For convenience in case that’s a path one wishes to follow: https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/124518-transgender-athletes/ There are others... But this is all only in the news and being discussed by us here again because the powers that be are trying to distract us from focusing on real issues and prevent us from coming together to fix real problems. You see... If we keep fighting with each other over non-issues like this, or about abortion, or guns, etc then we’ll never focus the fight on “them” in such a way that we could revoke their current well-financed control of our shared governance. Not only is this last part on topic, but it’s a conspiracy that is supportable, ta boot. 😎

Absolutely agree. Couldn’t resist taking a shot at my BIL, though. I’d be much more sympathetic if he’d mastered dovetail creation by hand first, or at least made the jig himself. I also acknowledge I’m being needlessly a jerk on this. I’d use the jig too if building drawers or boxes, for example.

My brother in law makes perfect dovetails. It’s just a bit sad that he paid a ton of money for a fancy jig and a brand spanking new router to enable him to do so. 😂

I haven’t yet mastered the art of hand cut dovetails. Admittedly, I stopped trying for a while when my first 3 attempts turned out so horribly. Good luck!

If someone submits a new math textbook saying "2 + 2 = banana" and "the square root of 72 = mushroom," would it be a conspiracy for that to get deleted and removed by the publisher? If not, then why is doing the same on the web about actual news and events any different? IMO, the problem here isn't conspiracy or corporate agendas. It's how easily otherwise intelligent rational people like yourself are so willing to believe them and incorporate them into your mental model of the world. With this foundation set, bad actors around the world don't even have to disprove or refute news stories or limitations placed on them by the press and public. All they really need to do is convince large enough percentages of people that NO claim out there can be treated as valid or true... convince people that 2+2=banana is a perfectly valid stance. Why worry about the which chess move is the best one to make next when you can erode the entire playing board from below until it disintegrates entirely and all the pieces fall down. Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

I'm 100% aligned with both Klaynos and Swansont above. It really depends on the details of the situation and varies case-by-case. There is no way to remain reasonable and rational when attempting to apply "one size fits all" thinking on this type of issue. It's also no longer "whistle blowing" when the information is being cascaded through external channels or media outlets without regard for the safety of our personnel or our country. If the internal processes (or local ombudsmen) in place to address these sorts of ethical issues have already been tried and failed, then it MAY be appropriate to take other steps outside the system, but this once again returns us to the "it depends on the details of each individual case" territory. After that, and beyond the process focused discussion, these decisions all occur within the subjective territory of what constitutes the "public good," and "which" public is benefiting or being harmed by the release / leak. This obviously will differ from one person to the next. Ask 10 people what's in the public good and you'll get 10 different answers. Finally, I'm also far less sympathetic to the leaker and their good intent / positive motivations when their source (and/or their funding) is from some other nation state which has a clear agenda... where the leak is basically being used as a soft / non-kinetic attack on another nation state or on democracy itself (like the Podesta emails or disinformation campaigns on social media, for example). Worse yet... even I myself am inconsistent on this subject within my own thinking. By example, I'd be far more open to an attack on another country launched by my own than on an attack launched on my country by another... or from my employer on to a competitor. This is anything but a simple question which leads to simple and binary yes/no answers. Nuance matters here, and the ONLY correct answer is that "it depends" and varies case-by-case.

This will quickly go off-topic if we let it, so let’s be sensitive to that, but here’s what I saw: OP: “I’d like to discuss green tech and ways to minimize our impact on the environment.” YOU: “For tech to help us, we’ll need to change how we impact the environment.” OP: “Yes, I agree!” YOU: “You’ve missed my point.” OP: “I don’t really see how. Will you explain?” ME: “You’re new here. Don’t worry too much. Dim is our local riddler and poet.” Hope that helps, bud. No offense intended. ✌️

QFT “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

We weren’t debating. I said something inaccurate and swansont kindly corrected me. Why do I get the feeling some sock puppetry is afoot?

There’s such an enormous feeling of satisfaction that comes from building something with your own hands... watching it transform from an idea, to raw materials, to final product. You can see in their faces they feel this way, too.

Correct, and without them you may as well be reading the comments section on YouTube videos I tend to agree. You might also appreciate ProPublica.

Back on topic, dismissing entire news sources due to being “corporatist” strikes me as misguided. Dismiss them when they publish crap and inaccurate garbage. Attack the content, not the messenger (or owner). This shouldn’t need explaining, IMO

That makes good sense. Thank you. Correct, but as swansont already highlighted, that’s due to changes in other properties, not mass. You can repeat and meander all you want. Mass and volume are not equivalent.

Not older people who prize accuracy and clarity. You may as well be claiming that everyone here is wrong for not acknowledging that modern day computers are human. It’s absurd, really. None of your meandering reply did anything whatsoever to address the entirely valid criticisms of your point, but at least you’re consistent in your wrongness. Mass doesn’t change based on temperature. It may change forms or get displaced from the original quantity, but it doesn’t change. Suggesting otherwise makes you look foolish, as does digging in your heels when repeatedly corrected. End program.

It’s also common among all businesses, large, small, and otherwise. It’s not an issue specific to corporations. Relevance? If it’s British should we no longer dismiss related news sources, but yes to dismissing those news sources if they’re American??

See, now they’re just showing off. Lol. Nice!

Why not use mass as mass and volume as volume? They’re different things, after all. You may as well be using banana as apple and celery as cheetah.

Yep. Employees even gifted him with a Tesla in thanks and in recognition of his correct focus and so consistently doing the right thing. However, your earlier comments here about corporations were so broad sweeping, generalizing, and all encompassing that you accidentally looped him and his entire team and his whole company (an obvious exception) into your disparaging dismissive comments... suggesting rather explicitly that anything they might be involved with cannot be trusted... that media sources should be dismissed if they have any involvement (instead of being dismissed for publishing things unsupported or untrue). That’s the problem with monolithic labels like “corporatists” or “democrats” or “republicans.” Labels make it easier for is to ignore nuance and detail, or to lump whole swaths of people into a tribe of “other” and “less than.”

So basically all corporations look the same to you? You believe none are run by decent humans with prosocial aims?