StringJunky

Like poison arrow frogs then. It's what they eat.

Wouldn't want to die with your boots off. How embarrassing.

Nothing and nowhere stays the same. We see what we want to see and ignore the rest.

TIL never to squat with your spurs on.

Whether the west admits it or not, it is culpable in the destinations many immigrants take. They are going where the resources are, that have been systematically removed from those immigrants countries over the last hundreds of years. Climate change in the equatorial poorer countries will only exacerbate that mass transit over the coming decades. As far as I'm concerned, the idea of national identity only exists ephemerally in any country's history... basically, only in the minds of the extant generations, and then it changes with the next. The concept of 'Britishness' of my grandparents generation (Post-WW1 to WW2) is not the same as mine.

Deluded subject. If anything, it just shows how prevalent racism is. Monocultures don't survive. Looking at you Israel.

Facts never change e.g. velocity of light is fixed in a vacuum. GR is a construct derived from facts, but as more facts emerge ,or are seen in a new light, it's description of that part of nature reduces in scope. In that sense, theories always seem to be contemporaneous in terms of their validity reflecting nature. I find 'truths' to be more tied to human experience than as scientifically objective information.

Facts are temporally permanent (always reflect reality), but truths are contemporaneous (correct at the time). As in science, the facts don't change, but the models (truths) can. Facts exist independent of an observer, but truths are human constructs.

What an oxymoronic subject title.

.... where the number of components/participants tends towards infinity. I have read. Like how many water molecules to make the liquid we know?

I thought it meant to be lost for words.

I thought emergence was the other way around: You can't predict the result, you can only afterwards say "A leads to B by observing what B is.

Wealthy people rarely got where they are by being generous.

If they dished out the yellow cards for grabbing more often, it would knock it in the head soon enough. It was nice to see an Argentinian to get two yellows, leading to red, for such arseholery.

When you respond as you are doing now, it is like talking into a vacuum and makes one feel like they are wasting their time, draining the momentum of conversations to a standstill.