Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "PowerfulJRE" channel.

According to wikipedia: Element-115, "moscovium is an extremely radioactive element: its most stable known isotope, moscovium-290, has a half-life of only 0.65 seconds." In Bob Lazar's talks element-115 is more stable. It features in an "island of stability". Obviously there are different isotopes of element-115 : Isotope ½-life Mc-286 20 ms Mc-287 37 ms Mc-288 164 ms Mc-289 330 ms Mc-290 650 ms As we can see above, the most stable version of element-115 is Mc-290. This has 115 protons and 175 neutrons in its atomic nucleus. It's half life is less than a second at 0.65s. I suppose there may be a version of element-151 which is very stable but it will, likely, have a greater atomic mass than any found so far. It's a shame Bob isn't able to describe the precise isotope of element-151 which he said was used in the alien tech. That would make his story credible beyond any doubt. 32 years ago, when Bob said he worked attempting to reverse engineer alien tech, we would've been able to precisely identify the mass of the nucleus of element-151. This is one of the first things the researchers would've done. Surely Bob would know the precise isotope of element 115 used by the alien tech. If Bob's story is true, maybe he's keeping it a secret, that might be part of an agreement he reached with the US government - to stay alive! It's a shame no skeptic interviewed Bob Lazer. The first question a skeptic would ask is what is the precise isotopic makeup of this alien element 151?
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Chris Rufo for president - come on Americans - you know it makes sense.
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This diagram of the predicted island of stability shows none of isotopes in the island has yet been synthesized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability Even so - none of these isotopes are predicted to be perfectly stable. They are just relatively stable. Meaning - even the island of stability isotopes will still be radioactive.
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That'd be personal, and rude. But they could've asked: "Does calling for the genocide of fentanyl abusers violate Harvard's rule on bullying and harrassment?"
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Rogan asked: "What Started the Cultural Fixation on Gender?" These 'woke' gender ideas came from Feminism and the Gay Movement. Originally, in the late 1960s and early 1970s (when they began) these were both called liberation movements (Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation). I'm surprised that Colin Wright doesn't remark on this. Instead Colin described his first encounter with wokes of 'New Atheism'. That's, maybe, when they first hit the culture scene in a big way. It's not the origin of the ideas. Feminist and the Gay theorists both saw/see heterosexuality as normative and oppressive. Feminists call it the Patriarchy, and gays called it Straight society. Gender wokism is a rebellion against normativity and oppression. Wokes are saying nothing should be normative and that a claim to normative ethics and behaviours is "Fascist". Q: How is gender wokism a rebellion against oppression? A: They see normativity as oppressive. So a rebellion against sexual normativity is a "sexual liberation" to them. Although both women's and gay rights groups make a big thing of "diversity and fairness"; their understanding of diversity isn't literal; it's more "diversity" as "anti-normativity". This nicely dovetails into Postmodernism - which is also anti-normative.
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This cultural fixation on gender has to be understood as a leftist attempt to gaslight us. The actual transactivists who promote it are, largely, not transsexual, and they're often not gay either. To what end? Other than to pursue a culture war, we can't easily see any purpose to it. It's as if the real political issues (whatever they are) became so hard to campaign on that a group of people - call them wokes, culture warriors, or whatever, emerged. They situate themselves as High Priests in society. Yet all of them are, basically, atheist! Few of them have any real education in philosophy or ethics, but they insist ONLY their dogma and rules will be allowed in social discourse on ethics. It's a kind of cultural Stalinism.
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Joe makes a point about people having to work hard; but that's only part of it. Western civilization began with the Greeks. The fascinating thing about Greek society was how competitive they were. The didn't only compete at sports in their Olympics. The Greeks competeted in poetry, play writing, pottery, art, ... In everything. Competition enabled their excellence. Western societies must defend and promote excellence; otherwise we lose it. Apart from competition and open markets - what other ways can we achieve excellence?
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Q: Was that because of LSD? A: Evidently so. Although people generally recover from acid and mushroom madness after a few weeks. Syd didn't so much go mad as drop out of the music industry. Some people aren't made for it.
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