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It is definitely the culture IMO. Other than Native Americans, we are used to just taking whatever we want/need (by force if necessary) with little regard for those being taken from. In addition, those who take the most are held in the highest esteem.

Democracy runs into problems when those doing the voting are relatively clueless about exactly what it is they are voting on and how it affects anything...

IMO it IS Americans per se. We worship violence and are easily duped so allow the system being discussed to perpetuate. e.g. Kill enough people on the other side of a war to make them give up and you are a national hero, prevent that war in the first place and few will remember your name. Need I point out more than current American politics to make the case for being easily duped?

Maybe require those desiring guns become part of a "well regulated militia"?

It's not vegan. Here I was hoping you actually had a point related to the topic under discussion worthy of consideration.

I make maple syrup every year. Unless you are conceding that I am a god, it beggars sensibility to claim "god did it". It's the same with virtually all human endeavors. Your turn to give a counter example...

I have read the thread and in science you don't "know" anything, there are only provisional explanations for things until someone comes up with a better one. That is why I want an example of "god did it" being that best provisional explanation.

This is quite an extraordinary claim, so I asked for an example. I thought the request was straightforward enough for anyone able to comprehend the English language... Also, I never claimed humans cannot be deluded or that ANYONE knows everything.

Also "nature" is known for harshness, once an entity is no longer among "the fittest", it dies and is gone.. OTOH "god" keeps a person (not sure if it applies to dogs and amoebae) around forever in some form or another.

Apparently, I am not smart enough to see the analogy. It seems more like the other way around since you are the one making extraordinary claims and in need of defense.

And all I did was ask for a single example of "god did it" being the conclusion with the most evidence behind it....

Until you prove the existence of god, I don't see how this would ever be true. AFAIK science is supposed to be based on the best available evidence, can you give any examples of "god did it" being that best evidence?

AFAIK Communism doesn't take religion into account, that would be Marxism which uses a communist economy as part of broader social structure...

Since there is still an electoral college, I think Trump will win. It seems like he has rural America pretty much locked up and those places wield more power in a Presidential election than do urban ones. Virtually everyone I know who is a Trump supporter complains about the high price of gas, groceries and rent (the fact that inflation was lower in the US than in most of the rest of the world is irrelevant) and immigration (one of the good ole bogeymen-these lesser humans are coming to take away your livelihood and change your way of life). While both sides seem willing to take steps that are likely to be completely inadequate for the mass migration event that is just beginning and is likely to only grow in the coming decades, neither wants to talk about the root causes of either. Like, how come at the peak of the oil crisis in the 70's, when gas was being "rationed", the price of a barrel of oil went above $150 but gas never approached $3/gallon (most places it was still <$1) yet today, when the price of a barrel of oil is less then half the peak of 50 years ago there are few places you can get gas for (not much) under $3. Or, how much does allowing corporate entities to buy up massive quantities of residential and agricultural real estate affect rents or ability of the average person to buy a home?

Maybe a dual use sign, just white out "Donald" after the election?

Reminds me of the Yippies campaign for "Nobody for President". Every campaign rally was a great success because nobody showed up and spoke at all of them.

Why is judging necessarily placing oneself above another? I don't want to speak for Phi but I suspect they would expect to be banned themselves for doing the things others get banned for...

Or old enough to just not care about being caught.

Pressure only affects the boiling point of any (that I am aware of) fluid, the steam will be hotter than 100C but it will still be saturated and not superheated because the water's boiling point will also be that much hotter.

Hard to believe, but Walz is the same age as Harris.

True but the rate at which the system tries to reach that equilibrium is pretty rapid so someone would have to show me it is possible to remove or measure any superheated steam before it returns (for all practical purpose, anyway) to the same temperature as the water it is in contact with.

According to Wikipedia (and engineering schooling I went through many years ago) you have to remove the steam from contact with the water in order keep it superheated (i.e. raise its temperature above the boiling point) beyond a very brief time. I would think any heating above the boiling point will be undetectable by ordinary thermometers by the time you opened the door and tried to measure it. "Superheated steam and liquid water cannot coexist under thermodynamic equilibrium, as any additional heat simply evaporates more water and the steam will become saturated steam. However, this restriction may be violated temporarily in dynamic (non-equilibrium) situations. To produce superheated steam in a power plant or for processes (such as drying paper) the saturated steam drawn from a boiler is passed through a separate heating device (a superheater) which transfers additional heat to the steam by contact or by radiation" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheated_steam

One of my first jobs was molding plastics at a place called Chemcut. We made machines that cut metal with acid instead of with machine tools. The basic process is to coat the metal with something that is acid resistant but breaks down under UV light. You then cover the metal with a negative of the piece you want and bombard it with UV light then run it through an acid bath that eats away all of the metal under the broken down chemical. I know at least 2 watchmakers had bought the machines because hundreds or even thousands of gears or other small parts could be manufactured at once in a relatively short time.

Water is also good for plants but it is quite possible to overwater most of them.