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Literally every single other competitor he has in the GOP primary right now EXCEPT ONE… let’s say Trump and Hailey are the ONLY two left for this thought experiment… And literally EVERY person previously supporting one of those other candidates who dropped out… all the DeSantis, Ramaswamy, Christie, Hutchison, etc. supporters could ALL then support Hailey… every single one of them… all go to Hailey, and she STILL wouldn’t overtake him. He’d STILL have more support than she does among GOP primary voters. The streets will descend into chaos, turned into war zones. Biden will be blamed for both the unrest itself and also any response deployed to quell it. The MAG-Queda extremists won’t go home quietly nor suddenly redirect their support to Liz Cheney.

You’ll need to define that for me, but the simple answer is likely an evolved tendency toward aligning with group norms and an upbringing within a culture that reinforces them socially. That’s good stuff. Have you considered putting these fun little nuggets of yours inside fortune cookies?

You didn’t understand my question, or if you did I don’t understand your answer Simplified: what is the wealth threshold for paying $1M vs $100?

Do you agree that if I find even a single one then your comment is false?

Which? I said falsifiable. Many ARE falsifiable. “Scientific” simply moves the goalposts, but still applies to MANY religious claims so is likely moot.

At what graduated wealth thresholds are you recommending the snowflakes will progressively melt?

It’s either systems the size of football fields or parallelism across multiple networked systems to make additional qbits available. Do you know of a 3rd option (other than marginal code tweaks to change order of operations) to increase performance? Yes, because if we haven’t done it by today then it’s clearly impossible. There’s simply no other possible explanation for why the work isn’t yet finished right now this second as I type this. None. Zero. 🙈

Because we use it to measure temperature not heat X-posted

It’s also beyond relevance or interest

Don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re clearly more than just that. Actually, there is. In both psychology and sociology. At least your record of consistently invalid posts remains unabated.

Go home bot. You’re borken

The better story I should’ve referenced instead was how in 1994 they caned a 19 year old boy from Ohio USA with a hard ratan cane (I believe 6 lashes) for something like spray painting the door of someone’s parked car. Has it helped litter go down at least? Or are such effects lost in the noise of that broader social engineering experiment they’ve been conducting?

Apparently so does ignorance since it seems they tend to reproduce in far higher numbers than the non-ignorant There’s an old quote about not judging a fish based on its ability to climb a tree. Do you know that one? Likewise, we should never judge the intelligence of a deaf friend based on their ability to detect perfect tones or discover the familiar voice of a loved one amidst the cacophony of a crowd. There are limitless contexts to which intelligence may be applied, and similarly endless “shapes” of “intelligence.” Does this entity have skills accurately recalling past events? Does it have skills accurately forecasting futures today unwritten? Does this entity have the ability shape the surrounding environment, to build a dam, or construct a nest? Is the entity an individual or a colony of individuals farming and building mounds? Does it have the ability to camouflage itself with chromatophores and control 8 legs independently all at once? Does this entity have a sense of self? Does it process and remember sounds better or do they process and remember sights better? Are they good at calculating complex math in their head without pen paper or tool? Are they able to fix a tractor using a spoon and some duct tape, or resolder a computer chip? Is this entity a gifted author or poet, or do they perhaps build amazing pieces of artwork and exhibit quality craftsmanship using wood or gems or edible ingredients on dinner plates? Are they good at puzzles or playing Tetris? Are they good at getting unlost along the side of a towering mountain, or avoiding icy spots driving down winter roads? Do they regularly find insights into the mysteries of the cosmos that intelligent others for centuries before them walked passed simply unaware? Do they know how to predict a tornado, or collect nutrients months in advance before getting covered for months by a frozen layer of tundra? Do they know how to sense and avoid dangers and plan for future security, and can they do anything to act on those plans and make them real? Or, are they simply going with the flow like a twig in the shoulders of a mighty stream? All of these things involve “intelligence,” but intelligence doesn’t require all of those things. Sometimes intelligence is simply being kind to the person in front of you, or perhaps sharing your nitrogen with the trees beside you, remembering to breathe and be grateful your skins not turning blue. And let’s say “all of nature” is intelligent. Okay, super. So what? Does that mean she knows how to simmer a great gumbo, or that she can manufacturer computer chips by the billions at a 3nm scale? Does it mean she’s really good at fractions and calculus, or drawing hyper accurate maps of cities? No, of course not, so why use the term “intelligent” at all when it would likely be better to focus on specific things that are far more relevant and interesting… like asking whether the tree that fish is trying to climb happens to currently be underwater.

And via mycelium colonies underground, I imagine

He may have locked up the primary before then depending on how things go in the next 3-4 weeks in pre-Super Tuesday voting

They’re not mutually exclusive, though. Religion makes claims about how things function in the natural world ALL the time, falsifiable claims.

What would happen is the wealthier citizens would continue littering and carrying on with their day since they wouldn’t “feel” such a minor slap on the wrist, while the poverty stricken and struggling would go without yet another meal that day when they get fined for a gum wrapper being snatched out of their hand by the wind and blown across the street into an awaiting officers view. Same issue is ruining much of our politics and governance: Lack of shame more broadly Singapore and bubblegum comes to mind

Or several serially linked with that same massive increase in parallelism realized within each.

You drew a picture of an epicurious symphony for me just there. +1

With the Iowa GOP caucus only 10 days away, Governor Hailey appeared on a local PBS weekly Iowa politics program this evening. Sadly, I kept getting distracted trying to determine whether her uniform made her an Ensign on Star Trek TNG or part of Tuvoks Security team on the lesser appreciated Voyager series

I feel bad sometimes for all the smart religious believers out there being represented online by those so clearly unmolested by enlightenment like here with mostly annoying morons who clearly ate way too much paste during childhood… Sometimes

It’s only possible to prove math and spam. All other assertions are provisional.

Any. Any whatsoever. Whatyda got? With honesty and integrity

yes

How about you start with ANY and we'll go from there.