Youtube comments of Ginny Jolly (@ginnyjollykidd).
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Marik Zilberman
Tap water, bottled water—it doesn't matter. If you exceed the homeostasis mechanisms of the body to right itself, including filtration, salinity, and osmotic pressure, you will get sick. If your body doesn't or can't maintain osmotic pressure described in the video, you will get sick.
No water below the saline content of 9% saline will do anything but draw off sodium and try to equilibrate salinity by dumping water into cells. Then cells will reduce in salinity to what is outside the cell if it can. If it can't, water will continue to pour in till it bursts.
Try trucking some distilled water into your eyes. Once you blink that clear, try some bottled water in your eyes. Clear it. Now try tap water in your eyes.
They will all three hurt and feel like your eyes are are swelling. That's because they are.
Now take some contact lens rinsing solution and rinse it into your eyes. You might feel a little sting at the beginning, but you will feel soothed by the saline. Why? It is normal saline, same as your tissues. 9% saline. That's why it is used to clean contacts and rinse them, so you can safely put those lenses in you eyes.
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There's more to it than that, but correct in a simple way.
And if we spot it in others, that means it is possible in yourself. Not to worry, though. Just take this into private contemplation (like at home) and see what your part in it is. They might say, "You always do this," or "You called me ten times yesterday" when you only called twice.
They exaggerate and go to extremes when the situation is not like that at all. They might say "I just lost a big client and it is all your fault."
In such a case you can rightly and politely ask, "what did I do and how can I make it better?" If they get flustered and walk away, let it go. It is their problem. If they give you a list, no matter how angrily or violently (except physically), write it down calmly and review it with them.
"Okay, I didn't get you that folder that day (because you asked for it at 5:00 p.m. and closed up when I came with it 2 minutes later and you said "leave it on my desk.")
And I didn't get your client a coffee yesterday (because the machine was broken down.)
And I didn't give you the copy of the budget. (because the Copier Repair man didn't come again when we called twice.)
And I didn't arrange for a tour. (okay, yes that was my doing. I should have asked if you wanted to invite him around.)
One time I was taken to task by a boss at a grocery who was known to throw his weight around a bit. He accused me, "One of our customers complained you left your cash register when there were people in line."
"You're right; I did. The customer needed this item, and I knew where it was. It was quicker for me to get it than to wait to call someone in Stock to come up, find out, go back and get, and return to the front. I did it to serve customers better."
He saw the sense in that and dropped it.
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@Garrett Dodds
It's too bad masculinity is portrayed as toxic, because there are a lot of talents that men bring to the table. Generally taller and more muscular than women, they can get the stuff off the high shelves at the grocery,and they can spot me if I'm uncertain with my movement or balance. Or also moving large, unwieldy things like furniture down steps or flipping over or turning mattresses.
I believe men should be allowed to show their feelings but also work together in projects like DIY. One of my favorite pictures my mom bought was of a man giving his full attention to carving a bowl out of wood, about the size for a casserole or to hold fruit on the table, or toss salad. This man looked gentle, strong, focused, and determined, in every way what I see good men are. Caring. Respectful. Feeling.
The men's dynamic is often different from women's dynamic, but each brings unique talents to the family.
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No, I stayed my quite adequate 5'3".
You know what did make me an inch taller at one point was Tai Chi. I recommend it. It gently stretches the whole body, not just the legs. Basically it helps you out of the crunch that normal gravity pulls you into. That is, the neck, the torso, the hips, legs, and feet. The arms and shoulders are stretched, too.
And after a 14 minute set of 108 (118?) moves, you feel like you've done a lap of running around a race track. Hard to believe, but you are actually doing work with that gentle regimen.
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Not on topic, but about pontoon bridges:
Back n 1937, 85 years ago, my city of Louisville and places along the Ohio River upstream and downstream from us, experienced a flood that covered most of our city limits and a great deal of our county. People were rescued partly by pontoon bridge made with barrels donated by the local brewery, Brown-Foreman. When I first learned of it as a child (I'm 2 generations later), I thought it was an ingenious way to make a bridge, and I thought it was very generous of Brown-Foreman to provide the whisky barrels. Not only was there air in the barrels, but the barrels were made of wood, another buoyant quality.
IIRC, whisky is aged in oak starting in new oak barrels, then each batch is transferred to older and older, more seasoned barrels that have aged batches more whisky before the latest batch. Just a little trivia.
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@hughcrew
No, actually our bodies don't "weed out" any traits. We have plenty of errors and throwback things. We still develop things as an embryo that were in common ancestors from way back, such as gill slits (which become eyes, ears, nose and mouth), a tail, and webs between our digits. We also have eyes that evolved backwards and aren't nearly as good as fishes or even octopuses. And look up any explanation of the recurrent laryngeal nerve to see how ridiculous it is. Our ankles are cobbled from easily - breakable parts. Why don't our feet have a ball - in - socket joint?
No, parts aren't gotten rid of on purpose. As long as the genes remain in the gene pool, they will be expressed. And some people will have tiny gill slits, some will have a couple of extra tits, and some will have a little more tailbone than the rest of us do.
And there will be people who have the palmeris longus and those who don't. As long as it doesn't interfere with survival, the gene will stick around.
And strangely enough, the genes responsible for organisms making their own vitamin C interfered with our survival, so some time ago, common ancestors to us and a few other primates lost these genes. Or the part of our population that had it didn't live to pass it on. So we who survived don't have it.
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@2GoatsInATrenchCoat
Learn how to pin up a pair of pants so they break right over your shoe. It's hard to do by yourself, but it can be done.
Cut across both legs of the pants about 2 finger widths below that. With pants inside out, measure one finger width and fold that length down on all sides and iron with steam. Measure the leg one more finger down, fold the folded part down once more, capturing the raw edge of the first fold all the way around, and steam iron again.
Find the top of the second fold which will be a finger width higher than the leg bottom. Thread a needle with a foot and a half of thread for sewing. A bit longer if you are double - thread sewing. Knot the bottom of the thread. Now you will blind hem:
With pants leg still inside out, catch part of that top of the folded hem with your needle (about ⅛ inch) and pull thread through. Go to the fabric next to the hem, and about the same height, pick up another ⅛ inch from the fabric and pull through. Make this stitch not too far away from the first, about ¼ to less than ½ inch away. Move down the hem about ¼ inch and grab an ⅛ inch from the hem side, then move ¼ inch to the next fabric - side stitch. Keep alternating these stitches all around the leg hem till the knot you made at first. If you left some thread at the beginning knot, you can use that to tie off your hem. If not, then you will have to tie off your thread by passing through the inside of the hem a few times, or a couple of times with a fisherman's knot. A a little fabric glue (like Aleen's) will hold your knot down. Clip any threads to about ¼ inch to finish and apply fabric glue.
Voila! One hem done! Now do the other side, making sure they end up the same length.
Tip: save the cut fabric for patches for your jeans. I guarantee you will need it.
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Manual transmission will probably go the way of the starter, the crank, and the throttle.
I learned and took my driver's test in an automatic, but I also learned on a manual transmission car. At the time, it was important to know both in case I had to drive one. And in 1985 it was good to know. Also, manual transmissions were cheaper. When my Mom bought me a car and we were quoted the prices, the automatics was several thousands more than manual, so she agreed to get a manual.
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I love the stick! All my cars had sticks. I loved the stick on my first car—a Geo Metro — because it had only 3 tiny little cylinders, and a manual was the only way I could climb hills.
My later cars had more power, and my Chrysler Neon had powerful front wheel drive that could get up steep hills in Floyds Knobs just north of Southern Indiana. 60° hills! In ice! Even my friend's Chevy S10 (back wheel drive) couldn't do that!
But cars I drove after the last one I owned were automatic. I love to drive, and the rentals were powerful (and I had to learn them), but I really loved the stick. Like one gentleman said, it becomes part of you, an extension of your limbs; an extension of yourself.
But it's the power I wanted, and while I loved the stick, I'll have to learn the new cars. I can live with that. And because electric cars are even more powerful—and more efficient — I really will have to learn them, too.
Still, one does need to calculate the cost of fuel and propulsion. We know how much gasoline (RFG?) it takes to create how much electricity from hybrids. So how much gasoline translates to voltage? (energy; KWH; Joules) And how much energy per mile does it cost? KWH per dollar?
Combustion engine drivers will fall away by attrition, and then only avid car enthusiasts will have them. (There will always be those.)
Technology moves ever forward, and people move with it. People like me will die off (I'm 57), and electric cars will become cheaper than combustion engines. That is what will drive the car industry: the money people are willing to pay for them. And that will determine how much the car industry will sell them for.
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@lonewolf2123 I remember Anita Hill, and I wanted her to win the appointment. I remember Justice Thomas, who at the time not a Justice, insulted and gaslit her most egregiously with sexual innuendo and slur. And he has been egregious ever since.
Is she still around? I'd like to see her appointed unless she's got a better personal occupation.
How about Hillary Clinton? She said "It Takes a Village." How about Fani Willis? I feel like these two are "The Buck Stops Here" type of people.
No one is without a past. None of our Legislators, None of our Judges. And even President Biden has been slurred for his son's drug addiction and actions. In any appointment or election, there are people on both sides of the aisle who will dig up dirt and accuse any candidate. And they can be legitimate accusations, or, like Trump's, they can be baseless.
But even as jurors are charged in voir dire, can they set aside their biases and administer neutral, non-partisan judgements?
I submit to you Justice Thomas cannot. I believe him to be bought, and he likes his little trinkets. On the other hand, I believe Hillary Clinton can be neutral and Fair. More justifiably, I think Fani Willis and Anita Hill can render fair and neutral verdicts.
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We already trust a lot of hardware technology, even down to needles that draw blood and monitors of vital signs.
Automatic defibrillators are trusted to tell what kind of EKG a heart attack victim has in order to advise whether they have a shockable rhythm or not.
Anything that we use to get information on biologic entities is a trusted form of AI. Micro tools used in microsurgery give views of blood vessels and tissues too small to see.
We use a lot of technology already that is voice-controlled or smart seeking, like the little square corners in your camera in portrait seeking out recognizable faces. Sometimes it will tell you when somebody has their eyes closed. (Tho in my case, my eyes are actually open but squinting.)
I went to a direct buying site for glasses, and I virtually tried a pair on. Instead of viewing them on a snapshot picture, the site was like your camera taking in moving scenery. Wherever I turned,the virtual glasses followed my face at the proper angle. This is a form of AI as well.
Isn't one of the largest, most prolific AI the Internet? It makes decisions all the time.
In Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
"“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master – – that's all.”
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Broken bones (remember you have 3 ear bones in each ear), sprained ankles, PTSD, indignities (what's with the onesie?), yelling, battering, internal injuries, head injuries (can you say concussion?), liver punch,... and so much more that can go on.
That is not worth $20K.and you'll probably need all that because it can easily come out that you've been there and insurance may very well not pay for it.
How much is your brain worth to you? How much do you like to walk or even stand upright on your own? How much do you like your eyes and ears? How much do you like to text or play piano or hug your family? It's hard to do if your arm is crushed. Do you like to talk or eat? Can you do that without teeth?
No, your body and mind and sanity are worth much more than $20K. Don't do it.
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The third item on his list needs to be the first, though he rightly puts number five last.
In too many companies I've seen "Sales were like this; we need better; to achieve that, you (meaning the front line employees) will do this. Any questions?"
This is not empowering. In fact, that last question is one of the most rhetorical, mouth-shutting, and idea - suppressing sentences.
What I wanted and want to see is management first talking to the employees about how they do their work and not automatically change things around, throwing everybody into chaos and confusion over the new system that fails miserably. It seems every new manager steps in and must change things around without seeing what works first.
And I've seen numerical measurements that defeat the purpose of customer service by requiring the front line workers to go faster, which really defeats the purpose of customer service.
I've seen all too many times when cashiers are called to the front way too late to help the burgeoning clientele. The rush to push people through checkout makes cashiers grumpy-mouthed and silent, and clients, already irritated in long lines, get even grumpier.
My best manager was one who stepped in where there was a need even as he called others to help, and he cashiered, he bagged, and he got price checks and products from the back warehouse.
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Here the mouth might be shaped already and be an appendage while in other organisms (amoebas, e.g., that put out engulfing parts of itself that look like fingers that surround the food.
We rarely see it in 3-D, tho. If we did, it would look more like a baseball glove surrounding a ball and trying to close all the way around it.
But like us holding the ball in our glove, the amoeba can't make it a part of itself yet. So it holds the food in a ball of outside environment in its outer membrane pinched off to hold the food, kind of like bunching it up in a garbage sack.
In that "sac" or vacuole, the amoeba sends digestive chemicals in, and freed nutrients are brought to the cell proper. When the prey is finished, the vacuole joins with the outer membrane again, and any waste is released, too.
Oh! And look up clathrin and clathrin cages! So. Cool!
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Lord Malloch-Brown,
Yes, I understand that the stuffy politics of ambassadorial work must prevail to soften tempers of Ukranian and Russian leaders, but
compare the heinous and crude methods of war Putin is waging: like China in the Korean War of the 1950's, he is throwing his people to the meat grinder to the point that Russian conscripted soldiers are braving their troops' mortars to be captured by Ukranians in hopes of better treatment.
Ukranians are using the armaments and support they are given to fight a smarter, more efficient war to regain their country which was taken away by Russia.
To expect Putin to give up what he has taken in peaceful talks is like expecting Mr. Donald Trump to pay his rightful back taxes and pay to contractors he bilked over the years by just being asked. It won't happen.
Conservative reserving of promised help is reneging, and it threatens the plans of a world-recognized sovereign country to regain their rightful country's land.
Yes, every regiment at one time or another has had to make executive decisions about changes in logistics. I would rather see these regiments in Ukraine adjust to unavoidable extenuating circumstances rather than dealing with supporting countries that can actually, deliberately make good on promises.
We sit in relative comfort in our respective countries (I am American) while Ukranian service people sit in water in trenches and live with shelling as they try to get some rest to continue the fight while the war is in a stalemate. Also as they are taking back territory around Bakhmut, now is a critical time for support.
Americans have not seen serious battle in our country since our civil war, and though there has been much more fighting in more parts of Britain, we both still have a peaceful buffer between ourselves and the worst conflicts, battles, and wars in the East. Our borders are secure.
Understand that Putin will not stop at the Dniepr River if he ever gets there (he won't): Poland and the Baltic states are next. The point of this battle is not only to resist Russian aggression, but it has been put forward several times that Ukraine stands between Russia and NATO. And this is a big reason to support Ukraine.
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One of the best information cascades before the Internet was from advice columns in newspapers. It was one of the very best forums. Dear Abby and Ann Landers were two of the most famous, and many people swore by their pronouncements. (They were cousins, IIRC.)
I used to read them myself, and I agreed with a lot of their advice. And one thing that impressed me was that they admitted their mistakes and gave follow-up corrections. Often in the form of letters from respondents. Unlike many posting in social media, Ann Landers and Dear Abby would cite their research including consulting expert authorities. She would have contacted the Attorney General, or the Sheriff of the town being referenced, a knowledgeable lawyer, the Surgeon General, regulatory advisors, or other authorities and sources.
Their columns were actually good ways to learn critical thinking and evaluation. Two of their common aphorisms include: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." (Tho "broke" depends on the use, results, and scope, much like science.)
The other one, perhaps more apropos of this video, was:
"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
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I personally like his extreme characters. Very little if any YA angst. Science done in an industrial fashion. History of the Medieval Earth times used as a plan and plot to cause the downfall of the Empire and the rise of First Foundation. And the growing paranoia that something other than the progress of Foundation is controlling the destiny of the First Foundation.
Ebling Mis, a volatile, thrifty man whose favorite cuss words are "unprintable" and "gal-AX-y."
Susan Calvin who hates people and prefers robots.
Hari Seldon, whose study of human nature put him in many culture clashes and embarrassing situations that could not help but turn him into a 3-D character (and ultimately the literary version of Asimov himself).
R. Daneel Olivaw, the robot who traveled through worlds and lived the ages trying to fulfill not only the Three Laws of Robotics but also the Zeroth law (substitute "humanity" or "humankind" for "a human" in the First Law) which was instilled in him by another, more perceptive robot, R. Giskard.
And my favorite, Golan Treviz, who determined which direction human history should continue to preserve its existence and chances to thrive.
Oh, and I also like Greg Powell and Michael Donovan.
All of these characters have developed depth and fleshing out and growth. Just because they all seem academic and dry doesn't mean they are flat, 2-D characters.
Heck! Even a runaway robot enjoyed quoting Gilbert and Sullivan (even as Asimov loved to sing it and even Captain Jean-Luc Picard sang it).
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Yes, there's a glycemic index, no it's not on the package. I have used a combination of plate division and carb counting (30g per meal X3 plus 30 g for snacks for females, an extra 25 g/day for males). Also taking my blood sugar, sometimes testing a food before and an hour after to see how my body acts upon it.
Glycemic index is only a number used for research comparison. It doesn't really measure a whole lot. I think I get a better idea about any one food if I measure my blood sugar before and after a food.
If a food makes my blood sugar stay high at 1 hour afterwords (close to 200, and I've measured some at 200+ a few points), then I know it is a high-glycemic food for me, and I must watch how much I eat of it at a time.
Otherwise, I eat fruits and veggies of lower glycemic index like apples, peanut butter, meat-heavy foods, avocados, cucumbers, and other stuff in the produce section. I try to stay away from bread and rice, and if possible I remove rice from any frozen dinner. Since rice is mostly pure carbs, removing even five grams makes a difference, since each gram of carbs contains five calories each, and 25 calories removed makes a difference.
Now I know why there is frozen riced cauliflower in the freezer section at the store. I've used it as a filler for stuffed cabbage successfully, and my stuffed bundles make 41g - carb meals.
I've also found a small electronic scale useful. Mine cost $15.00,and a number of them cost $20.00 - $30.00.
I try to keep to one slice of bread since one slice has 23g carbs. I like light rye, and it has about 3 or more grams less per serving of carbs per slice.
Pair rye with sliver-sliced lean beef, Swiss cheese, saurkraut, and Thousand-Island or Russian dressing (Reuben on Rye), and you have an excellent, carb-friendly meal.
Things like that.
For cakes and cookies from scratch, I'd have to count total carbs and divide the whole thing by servings and determine carbs per serving. Yes it's a pain in the derriere, but it becomes easier as you do it more. Then you can save the info.
And there are always carbs posted in the nutrition info on a food package.
Another tool I use is Nutritionix.com where you can look up the nutrition info on most foods. It's the most comprehensive database out there.
But I've read nutrition information since I was a child of about 8 yo.
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Do take courses you like as well as pre - med requirements. They are necessary to your personal and professional flourishing.
For me, I took Marching Band. Also, I adored the German classes I took. I was a member of the German Honor Society (and Pre-med Honor Society), and, had I taken one more semester with 2 more German classes, I would have completed A German minor as well.
(My German friend assured me, though, that my German was fluent enough to get along once I get to Germany —a bucket list travel item of mine.)
But do what's right for you. For me, it was necessary to finish ASAP. Degree in hand. Besides, I was getting spring fever.
Had I realized I could take Japanese — only a single credit hour — I might have taken one more semester, gotten that German minor, and taken another language that I wanted to take.
I didn't realize Japanese was less complicated than Chinese.
But find your passion! And make sure you confer often enough with your department head. They can help you plan your course, focus your direction, and steer you to avenues that can help you on your way.
Talk to your professors about your ideas. In fact, interact with your professors often.
If you are invited to join an honor society, join. Be wary of sororities. While they give great service, it can possibly eat into your school time. Balance is key.
Do go to honor society functions and the meet and greet things. Often there are snacks, and you get to see people like deans, president, and provost. I love to hobnob at these!
Much good studying and college - ing to you!
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Then we wouldn't have prosthetics, much less beautiful prosthetics. We wouldn't have artificial hearts or heart valve replacements. We wouldn't know about heretofore unknown organs like the recently found interstitium. We wouldn't know how the immune system works or how chemicals inside the body act in their many and varied ways. We wouldn't have oxygen concentrators that are lighter, smaller, and much less dangerous (no frozen parts) to use than liquid oxygen cylinders and the Linde Walker liquid O2 tank.
We wouldn't have pacemakers. We wouldn't have MRI, X-Ray, PET, Ultrasound, or other imaging that have revolutionized diagnoses in general. We wouldn't have genetic testing. We wouldn't know how blood types work. We wouldn't know how immunity works or even have vaccines. We would still have endemic smallpox and severe illnesses that prey most often on children and infants (measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis, and others). We would not have discoveries like fungi that fight bacteria (penicillium mold, e.g.), nor culture media to determine what diseases are causing your symptoms.
We would still have broken limbs in plaster casts rather than removable yet equally - effective soft casts. We would still have people having had radiation for cancer who have chronically swollen arms due to lymphedema caused by the radiation.
We would have nothing but flats, tennis shoes, and heels instead of the choice of shoes we have today for sports, arch support, walking and standing support, and stylish orthopedic shoes. Even high heels have supported cork heels, padded soles, and several differences over decades. There are 3-D printer plans to build arm prosthetics for children and others. Movie technology has fathered a creation of a prosthetic arm for a child in the shape of the Iron Man arm that Robert Downey Jr. wore in the Marvel movies.
That's what experimentation in medicine has given us, and more. And it continues to do so.
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Anyone can sound genuine if they believe in their ideas enough. The only things he said that were true were inequality, hierarchy, and self - compare. But even these, taken to extreme, turn into monstrous things: people living on the streets only able to get food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and even day work at the beneficence of a church or the public assistance that is not even a penny on the tax dollar and still unable to afford any creature comforts. Not their own apartment or house, no belongings, no transportation resources, no toilet. No deodorant or razor. No bed but an army cot and wool blanket. No company but those in despair. No food but being required to experience a sermon that doesn't help you at all.
Hierarchy also applies to the people whose job is to administer the public assistance. Job >no job, yet these employed have more than those they help. And either they aren't grateful, or they are truly afraid that there is a knife's edge between them and the people they serve. And yet these people have an income, a roof over their head, food to eat, a decent bed, a shower, a private toilet, and even more than one room where they live. Many A Wal - Mart employee can't say that.
But at Christmas and holiday time, who holds back from their children if they can at all give them a gift? No one. Who is prevented from seeing the town lit up with delightful decorations? No one. Even turkey dinners are served at shelter dining halls.
But it wouldn't happen unless people, under all the scrabbling to be "King of the Hill" didn't feel other people were important because they were people.
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It works, but not efficiently.
"New Math" of the 1950's is used today commonly and covers pre-algebra and arithmetic (ciphering) needed for higher math definite results.
Asian methods of crosshatch arithmetic and Chisenbop break down for 3 digit numbers and larger. Asians use abaci to do most transactions, say, in the market. And electronic transactions require no arithmetic at all.
Funnily enough, common core came about when political attitudes toward Middle Eastern peoples were very hostile.
Algebra itself came from Arabic mathematicians and formed a brilliant foundation for all higher math.
So it was all thrown out, and an obfuscated form was created to cover the origins up. And it also breaks down for non-whole numbers of 3 digits or higher.
Arabic-originated math takes on any size number, plus fractional numbers, negative numbers, and even complex numbers. It gives a smooth transition to base 8 and base 16 math, which is necessary for computer machine language.
1950's "New Math" (Arabic origin) is so smooth and fits in and works with any level of math up to calculus and beyond. It helps us see patterns in math and thus makes it easier for us to create shortcuts.
And yes, you do use algebra every time you go to the grocery and comparison shop. Those little tags on the shelf don't tell the whole story and can still leave you paying more for your groceries or Xbox.
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Nuclear is great under certain conditions. The conditions I prefer are fusion. Why? Because fissionable materials are rare and limited, however much energy they can release. And on the point of releasing energy, you can't get 100% usable energy from it. As you convert nuclear energy to heat energy, matter and energy is lost in the process.
You can't let the fissionable material go as energetic as it can, or else we end up with Chernobyl and Fukushima. So you can't get the optimum energy from that due to the need for control rods.
Further, in order to keep the reaction going, you need to slow down the neutrons released from one nucleus in order for it to be more likely to hit another nucleus. If you use control rods for this, that's kinetic energy lost.
Then water requires 540 calories per gram to heat water to steam. More energy lost in the transfer to kinetic energy. Then in the turbine, kinetic energy is lost due to friction by the turning turbine and the steam hitting the turbine vanes. A necessary evil in order to produce electricity. And then there are the losses of energy the same as electricity from a hydroelectric plant before it gets to our homes.
Non-renewable
Large losses converting it to a usable form
Rare fuel
And causes disease such as cancer.
Deaths alone aren't a reason to abandon nuclear fusion. But if people are exposed to nuclear waste, many people will developed different kinds of cancers. Animals can develop cancers, and the land in which nuclear waste is buried will become unusable.
To me, there are just too many question marks over fission than any answers given have been able to satisfy.
But fusion releases even more energy than fission.
One big question I'd like answered, "How could we get higher amounts of usable energy from fusion?"
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@MNHS16
Indeed! Catching it in time is the most important part of treatment. But sometimes it's hard to tell.
I woke up one morning lying on my front. In adjusting myself for comfort, I felt a prominent, hard breast lump. I knew right away it was cancer. It was diagnosed stage II and I beat it. But not all cancers and cysts are like that.
I had a mammogram and then an ultrasound biopsy of both breasts. On one breast, it was a clear pinpoint calcification easily aspirated. On the other it was a cyst that was deep enough in and soft that I couldn't even feel it. Not even when I poked directly on top of it.
When I looked back on previous years, I remember times I checked, and it seemed part of my underarm was thickened, but at the time I didn't think it was anything. Now I know even that needs to be checked. Self-exams are necessary, but mammograms are much more diagnostic. I thank science for developing them and medicine for strongly recommending them. And all the health periodicals editors who wrote about breast cancer in the 1970's.
Still, even though I caught my cancer early, my cancer had to be treated aggressively. Back in the 1970's, people with cancer were only diagnosed like at stage 4, either because they didn't know or they were afraid of a cancer diagnosis. They thought they would die. Or have to have a radical mastectomy. And many did.
In the 1970's, there was a great public service campaign for people to check themselves for possible symptoms of breast cancer. The big thing was that if you found something that seemed like an early cancer, take it to a doctor to treat it early for a great chance of surviving it. This alone saved so many people's lives.
I've seen some pictures of stage 4 cancer-ridden breasts, and they are horrific! Open wounds with tissues that seemed like someone caught their breast in a food processor! And these were in black and white!
Cancer treatment is amazingly advanced these days, and treatments are developing all the time! If you have cancer, there has never been a better time than now to take care of it medically! It's not just pharmaceuticals. Chemicals from food known to fight cancer are being developed into treatments. Medicine is not ignoring nature.
Tea, apples, cruciform vegetables, root vegetables, Avocados, tomatoes, dark green leafy vegetables, and more have such cancer fighting elements. And you don't have to wait for science to produce these. Immune support awaits you in the grocery produce section today! Bon Appétit!
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I've definitely got the palmeris longus on both arms. I wasn't sure at first, but I wasn't flexing enough. And I checked and made sure it wasn't the other one. But during the test I wasn't sure if I did, and I wondered if it could be only on one side, and you showed that yes! It could be!
But I'm a throwback. I'll leave that genetic change to the kiddos.
And yes, I believe religion and science can coexist.
In fact I think of someone commanding "Let there be light!" and the Big Bang with all its catastrophic splendor and cacophony happens!
But science —The Standard Model —has been studied and built for thousands of years at least. And not only has evolution been going on these billions of years, we are seeing it in realtime. Any time a microbe changes genetics, that's evolution. Anytime a species dies out, that's evolution. We found out we have useless microbial DNA in our genome. That's evolution. We can use our own genome to track evolutionary changes of microbes as much as changes in our own phenotypes.
That's evolution.
Methylation has appeared, methyl groups placed on DNA that have to do with gene expression. That's evolution in realtime.
That we are multicellular animals with cells that seem like prokaryotes slipped in and took up residence inside. Even mitochondria have their own interstitium and DNA. That is evolution.
But we are aware of ourselves and our surroundings, and we as individuals are always studying "what makes me me?" what makes me different from you but the same as you? Why do we get along, take care of each other, and let each other - help each other - live? What is it about ourselves that can think of these things? Feel these things? Consciously grab and study things? What is consciousness? What is it that makes us live? Where does this come from? I can only think that contemplating such things is religion.
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Aphasia?
You say it assimilated so many conversations, but there's a problem with that. It has no discrimination. It can't tell what is truth, what's a lie, what is real, and what is fantasy.
F'rinstance, one of my favorite comedians is Eddie Izzard, and he says in his acts he "talks bollocks."
In one of his bits he talks about "Dracula. Or Dracul, or Drac, or D'. " AI in such a case would swallow the lines whole, whereas we would say WTF? Or laugh, and in either case dismiss it as nonsensical and not pertinent.
AI doesn't know emotions or mental illness. It doesn't know the weight of any one thing in a human life like family, home, school, church, the newspaper, a blank loose leaf notebook page, a woobie, a niche, an area of study, or war or peace.
And that's a goodly difference between us and AI.
There might be a ghost in the machine, but even this sufficiently advanced technology isn't sentient.
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When I first read the situation, I yelled "Frivolous lawsuit!" and I could see the judge throw it out. A mediator might have been a better idea.
Bees help keep plants strong with pollinating species with different varieties with different DNA. In fact, if the neighbor has an apple orchard, they might be glad of bees pollinating their trees with other varieties since apples will reject pollen they recognize is similar to its own DNA. (Another story.)
Now if the plaintiff were growing roses of strict varieties, they might have a case. Even so, the plaintiff could leverage the bees if the plaintiff protected particular roses from pollination while letting bees pollinate certain exposed ones. They might profit from both true - breeding roses as well as chance new varieties they could develop.
Both plaintiff and defendant could make money off of this.
As far as the plaintiff getting stung as a child and they complain to the defendant, the defendant has the opportunity to educate the plaintiff on bees, their non - violent ways (unlike vindictive wasps), and the advantages of pollination for the plaintiff's own flowers.
Then they could work together to come up with a mutual solution. They could even barter goods and services. Maybe the beekeeper in an excellent market with a big clientele desiring roses or poseys, and the beekeeper could help sell the neighbors flowers. Or the neighbor could sell honey alongside their flowers.
Also what about the habits of bees? They often come out in early morning before ants get a chance to get at a flower's nectar. Dew is too slippery for ants, so honeybees have the advantage, with their wings. If the bees do come out in early morning and leave soon after, it could be a good opportunity to sleep in. Or spend time on a screened - in porch. Or have morning coffee. Even being on a concrete patio can keep bees from stinging you, because you don't step on them.
Now if the plaintiff were culturing mosquitos and letting them roam free, that might up the ante for a case. Like training a dog to be vicious and letting them off - leash.
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Um, my own grocery, one of the largest groceries under the Kroger umbrella, is decimated. TP, Bagged cereals, 99% of the fresh meat cases, hands sanitizer, biscuits, and butter, and a few other things.
Bar soap is fully stocked; ironic. The bandage, sports support, allergy medicines, and itch remedies supplies are quite well - stocked (masks are out).
There is a case of shrimp trays —quite reasonably - priced —quite well - stocked, while beef, pork, and chicken are mostly gone.
There are other aisles I have not toured that I have thus not mentioned.
So, yes, big stores are being depleted.
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There are already entities in place to limit what you get. The USDA regulates the quality of food you get. The health of the animals or plants from which your food comes from.
If you go to the market, would you rather shuck a corn husk and get a pristine ear of corn? Or shuck it and come face to face with a corn worm eating it? Or a cob with very few full kernels on it? Or rust (a fungus) on it?
Would you want worms in your apples and have to play "apple roulette? Throw away most of your apples because birds or other animals got there first? How about a spread of E. coli O157 or worse because of unsafe working conditions for the harvesters? Diseases passed on by infected birds, chickens, pigs, cows and sheep because of the livestock infected by infected fields?
OSHA does a lot of good for industry. And so do Unions. The EPA helps protect the environment, but in doing so protect us the consumers. In protecting us, they protect the best asset companies have: their consumers.
Robust products create a robust market, and people will buy those high quality products. Companies benefit greatly from this, can actually cut costs without sacrificing quality, and everybody wins.
What businesses these days don't understand—or at least many CEO's—is that you can't take all the profit off the top, not pay the people on the bottom, and stagnate the company improvement by hollering you have to pay the stockholders. It doesn't work like that. You have to reinvest most of your profits back into your company, take care of your frontline employees first because they are the money makers of the company as they produce the saleable product. Raises and bonuses. Incentives like on-the-spot bonuses for meeting exceptional quotas for a particular time limit. 401K or better retirement plans, support for schooling and continuing education. Medical coverage.
Middle management is next because they are paid more money already and there are fewer of them.
The company works gets a large cut because constant improvement is the mark of a great company with a great product. The stockholders get a cut because their holdings were the money invested in the first place, and they rightly expect investment returns. BUT investment returns should follow proportion of the profits after everything and everyone else has been paid. Yes, the CEO gets paid. And I'm not averse to someone getting a six-figure salary, even upwards of 900,000.00/year. But I know I don't need a six-figure salary for a good living including a home and a car. What would I do with a seven-figure one? (Don't answer that: it's a rhetorical question.)
Want to know how to run a business? Here: (just remember the "machinery" includes the people working in it as I've said above)
"Yankee Dood It"
https://youtu.be/2auI6Uz3D8I?si=ih-CtWAuAsLb_hp9
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Nothing to offer in the marketplace? That's not the fault of the elderly and disabled. That's the fault of the marketplace refusing to hire the experienced and talented elderly and alternately - abled people of society. This is not a market for the employee; it is a market for the capricious companies whose goal is not to hire for long term but to hire temporary employees and young people to whom they pay no benefits nor training. And they complain there is nobody qualified for their jobs.
It takes about a year in a job for an employee to reach full potential in a career job (a cashier job is NOT a career), and most companies refuse to invest that time, effort, and cost, preferring to hire employees at poverty wages. (Walmart, I'm looking at you!)
Time and again, too, the alternately-abled are overlooked in their talents and experience and abilities and knowledge. Our needs are looked at with disdain and revulsion, with fear that we with disabilities will want and demand a slice of pie bigger than the company can "afford" and then bring suit if the company doesn't comply.
Or maybe they think we will become those disgruntled employees that get revenge. It simply isn't so.
We who have disabilities have been systematically rejected, our needs ignored ("What? You can't work at a one - person job while sitting one foot away from your neighbor who is also working on a one - person job in a roomful of 100 people doing one - person jobs with a cacophony of a live warehouse as the office? With all the noise around and the neighbors talking incessantly next to you? How could you possibly need relief from that? After all, anxiety, mania, and depression are all in your head. Snap out of it and get to work! ")
Business is not built for the individual and her needs.
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What a big difference! Even in wartime even if an American avoids certain opinions, we can speak freely about war. We can support, protest, raise funds, send help, all without needing to think about getting arrested.
Yes, we had some absolute asses as presidents here, but never were we carted off like that for even preparing to say something disparaging to the government.
People here in America really don't understand what our first Constitutional Amendment allowing free speech is all about (actually it is 4 freedoms in one: speech, religion, press, and redress of grievances). How freeing it is to the most conservative and liberal people! And everything else follows from it.
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Transgender day was not designated by President Biden. It already was on March 31st. Easter is hardly this early in the year.
And Easter is no reason to turn your back on the marginalized. Indeed, What Would Jesus Do?
Jesus broke bread with the most marginalized and hated people of his time.
Today's society is no less devoid of hated and marginalized people. Since people celebrate Jesus's resurrection and his teachings of love, should we not also love people? All people?
If you can't extend a hand of friendship, the hand of civility will do. Do no harm, physically, emotionally, sexuality, and spiritually. Not by word, not by gesture.
Remember that every time you point a finger, on that same hand, underneath, there are three fingers pointing back at you.
What kind of "finger" do you point at people?
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Michael Cook:
I am not satisfied with the status quo. I am not satisfied with former Medieval practices of leeching, bleeding, strapping down (psychiatry), exorcism, and stigma attached to old medical practices that largely didn't work. I am already 13 years older than the 40 years people at that time used to live.
I prefer the cultivated foods of today and developed supplements that augment nutrition. I prefer medicines we never had in Medieval times: everything from sulfa drugs to penicillin to fourth generation antibiotics to eye care to ear care, to electric toothbrushes to local and general anesthetics, and more.
Every time I get a mammogram I celebrate because it means my cancer has not come back. I celebrate paramedic field medicine and research that showed that medical help administered to a heart attack victim within an hour ensures the best chance for survival.
I am grateful for the iron lung that preserved the life of my dad when he was a teen with polio and paralyzed, and when he was a man of 38 when it saved his life from complications arising from his childhood infection with polio. He lived to 61 years old, one of the oldest few survivors of the 1953 polio epidemic. We benefitted from Apollo Space Program discoveries almost directly for his treatment and quality of life. His last iron lung, instead of being a monstrosity that took 10 firefighters to get into the house, was a tube the size of a couch seat and a compressor that was much smaller and more effective than the bellows on the older one. The latest one could be picked up by 2 people, and it allowed him and my mom to go tour Virginia in their van.
So no, I am not satisfied with the status quo. I will always want better lifestyle and more options available to me.
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Well, let's see. During the first 2 years of the pandemic, we've had SERIOUS undermining of our best authority in pandemics Dr. Anthony Fauci by our WORST president since Ronald Reagan, maybe longer than that.
Anybody who contradicted our 45th president was summarily kicked out, threatened, or otherwise defamed, which created confusion, fear, and lashing out.
Our peaceful transfer of power was almost shattered by illegal entry and destruction of the Capitol Building in which the votes were confirmed by the Senate.
(There are legal and welcoming ways to visit the Capitol.)
The damage was done. Now a significant portion of the US fears and loathes science, doctors, and the government, maybe those who might have acquiesced had they not been riled.
How would any of us handled it? Every state government — all fifty governors — had to do it on their own.
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I'm from USA, so it's with outside interest that I look on UK's stats.
In the US, or at least in my state of Kentucky, we've pretty well have determined that Omicron is moving through our population much faster than Delta could, though Omicron seems less virulent.
What my question is, "How big is the population of England and Wales compared to Scotland, and how concentrated are the populations in each large city?" Like London and Edinburgh.
Large cities in the US—New York City and Los Angeles, and even my city of Louisville have experienced higher numbers of Omicron infections, most notably in people who have not been vaccinated at all. Whether they protested mandates from the government or haven't had access (access has increased so that no one is an hour's drive from one), these are the people who are suffering in hospitals.
And how are governments placing restrictions? Our most effective restrictions are to limit large gatherings: restaurants and bars (Pubs in UK). Also, people planning large gatherings like X-mas, New Year's Eve at Times Square, or family reunions were advised to limit them to 10 people or less.
The original recommendations are still in place:
#washyourhands
#wearamask
#sixfeetapart
And I've seen a lot of people wearing masks and honoring the marks on grocery floors and in other places that are 6 feet apart (2 meters).
These measures reduced Delta variant and nearly wiped out the Wild Type, but these variants were selected for by our own doing, and different efforts make a difference.
Keep a people from going anywhere and people will mount a hostile protest. Take targeted measures —and compensate the businesses which are affected— and people will accept that.
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All those Russians who were capable and smart left on the first wave of refugees leaving Russia around May, last year. Many more left September at the time of mobilization—second wave. Anybody else leaving will be doing it more slowly, more methodically, and with more calculated action—third wave.
Then there are those fighting: conscripts, contractors, and mobilized. They are in the war in Ukraine. They end up captured, dead, or still fighting.
Those who are left in Russia are, first, those who were jailed for protesting. Second, those who for any one reason, are tied to Russia. Third, those who disavow responsibility for politics and Russia. Also who would lay their birthright of freedom at the feet of a tyrant. Those who are left don't feel like they can do anything. And Putin knows it. And his propaganda works on them.
It takes a country of people willing to stir the hornet's nest and risk getting stung or worse to forge a new way.
And because freedom ain't free, people must keep a jaundiced eye open to invaders of their way of life and fight them.
But it takes a large group of persistent folk to pull off.
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I can hear him just fine when he is talking on the mic. And I could tell the difference when he was off mic.
Trump is disgusting and socially unacceptable. He has no discretion or filter.
And when someone works for you and their work is less than desirable, you let them know what's wrong, have them fix it, and pay them. Or if value was lost because of the lower quality work, you negotiate a possible discount. You don't withhold pay!
Anybody working with Trump, make a very detailed contract and do your best to hold his feet to the fire. Don't allow him not to pay you!
The point might be moot, though, since he owes pretty much all of his money, goods, and possessions to E. Jean Carroll, et alia
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I have a 1, 000 square foot condo and it is right for me. It was built in 1975, but it still had some good fundamental stuff like underground pipes and a chiller /boiler HVAC system that is effective, efficient, and economical for our 160-unit community. We even got a new boiler and new piping last year, so we are up to date. Yay for us!
When I got there, I had to replace the windows because of old mechanisms that were hard to move. This posed a fire hazard because it blocked secondary exits. For 8 windows, that was a huge chunk of money, but worth it. And I learned many smaller DIY projects: rehanging doors, replacing PVC plumbing, replacing door handle parts, and hanging a bathroom mirror cabinet.
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No secession! First, what would trade be like? The Founders—looking at crossing borders with goods—found eleven borders from north to south, and that each state would levy their own tariffs which would drive up prices. They decided that travel between states should be free for this very quandary.
If you look closely at maps of voters —not electors—that each county itself can and does have a different makeup of party affiliations, and from a little farther away, these areas look purple.
So where do you draw the line?
And, strangely enough, there are Texans who don't believe in the Texas party line, but they are Texans and won't leave and shouldn't be pushed to. Just because these individuals don't show up on a map doesn't mean they don't count.
Also, Texas would lose a lot of revenue. Their biggest resource is petroleum. They might be known for beef, but they aren't known for, say, carrots, pears, or strawberries. So what if—say, like Europe— the rest of us will rely on the Alaska Pipeline for our energy and push our programs of solar, wind, and ocean wave power?
Texas might not have any resources to trade. They will have to add sales tax. I can't see commerce going well.
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No, no, no! Colors are not invented. Greeks did not say there was no color blue and Norse did not say there was no orange. And I know that there are blue violets, the ones that grew in my yard when I was a child were real purple.
Purple, as the violet in the rainbow, are at a spectrum wavelength of 380nm from peak to peak.
This is not made up. This is not a blue wavelength mixed with the red wavelength of the next rainbow as a double rainbow.
Yes, rainbows are diffractions of white light. But because we cannot see most of the light in white light, there is a distance between the primary diffraction and secondary diffraction, so visible light spectra from the same light source cannot overlap.
If you see purple, you are seeing the real deal. The reason pigments look purple is because the pigment absorbs ALL the visible light EXCEPT purple. That's why plants are green. Chlorophyll absorbs all but green wavelengths of visible light.
Pigments can be "invented," that is a person can fool around with compounds that will reflect the color you are looking for, but colors themselves—the wavelengths of light cannot be created.
Now if you can't see violet or indigo, I can't help if you're colorblind. I can see vivid purple myself very well.
As for the cones on our retinae, the two kinds we have (red, blue, and green) have different sensitivities to any one wavelength of light. These receptors send the brain signals about the wavelengths, and the brain assembles them into the concept of a color that most of our species define the same way. We perceive wavelength 380 nanometers different ways, and the brain interprets them as purple.
But no matter how we perceive them—none of us can see ultraviolet but I it's there and science uses it— we perceive them in the same way as each other.
But violet/purple has always existed, orange has always existed, and blue has always existed. And you can't invent color.
Don't confuse people with semantics.
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I have a concern about fracking From a chemical point of view. If water is left in place of the shale, it wouldn't stay there but dissolve the rock around it, wouldn't it? It would leave a much bigger hole than was fracked out.
What about artesian springs? And aquifers in general? Don't they both have shale layers to act as a kind of pipe to keep water in the limestone layer in-between?
Like you said, the shale is the goal of fracking, and aquifers provide a lot of shale. We shall be disturbing this naturally clean source of water by putting holes in this natural pipe and losing good water at best, contaminating and making it undrinkable at worst.
At a time when the Western US is in drought while flash floods destroy lands, people, and property East of the Mississippi River, don't we need, more than ever, to preserve our underground waters which have feed us in more ways than one?
And as for a forest on top of a concrete piston, if you've ever looked at sidewalls next to trees or grass and noticed a buckling in the sidewalk or grass growing in the sidewalk, you know that Nature wins every time. Say a forest does grow on top of this piston: trees are notorious for seeking water. They crack water pipes of clay or plastic or any material. This is his we get dirt and the beginnings of soil. Say that a piston is good for 100 years. A tree growing on top of the piston would gum up the works in less than 20 years because it would grow down to the water beneath the piston through any space that offered, including the space—however small—between the piston and its cylinder.
Surely you have seen pictures of boulders grown through by trees. Search for "how paper beats rock" and you can find a picture of a boulder the size of a man, cracked through by a gigantic tree. The caption is "This is how paper beats rock."
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LIFT4POWER
A theory is an explanation of ALL physical OBSERVATIONS, explains the reasons why things happen as they do, and predicts the consequences of the causes that are seen in observations, which are subsequently found as true.
If consequences don't follow the predictions of the theory constructed, then the theory must be adjusted to say, "Okay, you can't explain the observation with that explanation. We need another explanation to cover this instance and still be valid for the rest of the observations we made. And this new explain —this new theory —should generate causal predictions that later observations will prove true.
Thus is why we know that Einstein's theory of how gravity works is true. He predicted gravity waves that would, like waves from a stone dropped in a puddle, to come from the motion of all objects in the universe, which is spacetime warped like a trampoline. 100 years later (or 2016?), using a huge, protected laser interferometer, we detected the gravity wave of two black holes colliding.
Einstein predicted it in his mathematics. 100 years later, we measured it with our tools. That is the power of the word THEORY.
Theory is tantamount to fact. It means that the scientists who have studied it are 99.99999999999% sure they are right. BUT a scientist always allows for that 0.00000000001% possibility they could be wrong. If they didn't, science would become dogma and would not change even in the face of new, contradicting evidence.
Science self - corrects. When an explanation doesn't cover all evidence, then the prevailing THEORY must be modified so it DOES cover all observations, evidence, and predictions.
This is why science continues and why we need more scientists. To prove again and again that we are understanding and properly utilizing our new observations with the theory that COVERS it ALL!
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I really wish someone would do a new study on how language learning works. Kids more often than not are in an environment from day one hearing their native language. It takes a while for their brain to wire up enough to articulate, and then they take a couple of years to learn how to talk. That's the babble phase: they are learning to talk. Then they say short words and phrases, and then over years they learn more complex language.
We teach a language for at most 2 years on most schools in the US. My sister and her friend were the only 2 I ever knew who took 4 years of Spanish. They spent the whole year reading and translating books like Don Quixote to each other. I took 25 hours of German language in college, which would be one or 2 classes in each semester, and I only had 2 in conversational German: six hours. Truly, if I'd held on for 2 more classes, I would have completed a minor in German. There were circumstances, though.
People say babies learn it more fluently. I took German for that long, and I speak the accent well. That's what I understand as fluency: being understood and accepted as a genuine, native speaker. I speak with a Baden Baden accent according to my German friend. She understands me and I... well, I understand rudiments. But I chalk that up to use it or lose it. I've even known her to search for a word in her native German. (She's an American citizen who lives near me.) However, she assures me that when I visit Germany I will do well.
But if people come out of 2 years in a language and can speak well and natively, how is that any different from a toddler learning language? They still have to learn grammar, and that still happens in school at age five. Five years immersed and they still have need of refinement.
Please! Someone! Analyze this further!
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I'm so glad you had a good experience here! 🇺🇲🇷🇺 I like to think we in the US have nice things to offer.
If I'm walking down the street in general and I pass someone I don't know, then I'll make short eye contact and nod slightly to acknowledge they are there, and then I go on. I'm not sure why, but that acknowledgement nod is important to me.
If it's someone I know, I'll say, "Hi, how you doing?" If the other person does it, I'll answer "Alright, thanks. And you?" They'll say, "Fine, thanks."
Except when I answer, it sounds more like "A'ight. You?" and "a'ight" rhymes with "tight."
I smile slightly when I'm around people. When I'm talking to someone, I smile more, and the more engrossed I am in the conversation I am, the more animated my face becomes. I smile a lot with friends. I laugh at amusing things, too.
When I worked at K-Mart (like Walmart but better IMO in its heyday) we at the cash registers were required to smile at everyone in line. It's not that I didn't want to, but for 6—8 hours, smiling is tough!
There were plenty of days when I had to fake smile at work when I really didn't want to. I would do this a while, and then about an hour into work, someone would remark and say, "You have such a lovely smile!" and then I would melt inside and my smile would become real for the rest of the day. And because I would try to talk to everybody as I rang their order up, my relationships with my customers became a bit closer.
Myy line would be always longer than any others, even though I was working quickly. People preferred to come into my line! That amazed me!
Smiling makes a person feel good inside.
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I don't know in other countries, but in the US, I understand in every blueprint of every building is the information on how to destroy it. No building lasts forever or is meant to. When a building is beyond its useful lifespan, especially a big building, it is demolished with explosive charges. Demolition teams can make a building come down in any direction, even fall straight down into its foot, just like the World Trade Centers in 2001. (9-11, remember?) In fact, that incident was so perfectly executed that I was angry for a time after that and outraged. Someone knew how to bring down the WTC's, and everyone in the US Government acted surprised and shocked. Don't the CIA and FBI keep tabs on this?
But yes, every building has its weak points.
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@ophello not really. If it were, our human offspring would not have to be rescued from potentially fatal outcomes. Look at any cartoon of a baby exploring the world around them and their guardian stopping bowling balls and knives from falling on the baby. Shoving stuff under, over, and around the baby to prevent more dangerous stuff. Setting a plate over a dropoff. Often the guardian takes the brunt of the imminent danger.
We have horrible terrain, large animals, plants that will make you itch horribly and incessantly. Poisonous plants and venomous snakes. And don't get me started on E. coli and MRSA.
Arthropods that bite, pinch, sting, and poison.
This world is not built for anyone. But it does challenge us. And with our wit, and our ability to chase prey long distances, we have come to achieve much and develop and improve our tools, physical and mental.
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Kamala Harris represents not just a chunk of Americans, she represents over half the American population (greater than male population) whether they think so or not. Some women may be against late term abortion procedures called D and C, which is used often to remove undelivered placental tissue. This tissue, if not delivered, can cause infections that are painful, sterilizing, and cause death.
They can be against IVF, but if that distressing event of an unplanned pregnancy upsets their lives, medical records are, ideally, protected as confidential by HIPAA. No one need know she used IVF or got an abortion, and she is free to say what she wants.
And there are plenty of men who care about the women in their lives who are for these procedures. Black, brown, and white.
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If I were a boss having somebody acting to cover up a plot, I think I would try not to talk too much or too long to my fixer. I'd want to make it seem that my relationship with this person who covers things up was such a casual contact that nothing could be made of it.
For example:
"Put the boss on, would you?"
* 5-10 seconds pass *
"hello?"
"Yeah, Boss. [code name] here."
"Go ahead."
"Uh, that thing we talked about last time?"
"Yeah."
"Just now finalized it."
"Good."
"I'll keep you up to date."
"Good."
"yeah. Bye."
"Bye."
* hang up cuts off call *
That can take 20 seconds.
Ever have a minute of silence? How about a silent prayer?
I'm a writer in a writers group. I wrote a character knocked on a door for five minutes. Another writer challenged me to knock on a door for five minutes. My hand felt like it was about to fall off, and the knocking was obnoxious.
Wash your hands while someone times you for 20 seconds. It's a long time. Before Covid-19, I might have taken half that time. I still think washing my hands takes too long. (But I do it.)
I've had a phone call or more in which I got information in which I said, "Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh. Okay, bye."
I've had plenty of phone calls that were 30 seconds or less. On old cell phones, the counter was right where you would stare at it.
Tracing a land line phone call could be done if you kept the target talking for about a minute. Keeping them talking for the trace time was difficult, and if memory serves, it took about a minute ans a half.
Two subjects can be touched on in a minute-30.
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Intelligence Quotient was first used to determine if children were able to handle the curriculum of school—if they were able to handle first grade material. A score of 100 was normal and considered the benchmark of being able to handle the beginning curriculum of school. Otherwise, it has no meaning, and the tests are rather insipid and unrevealing. It doesn't determine how kinesthetically apt they are —to dance ballet, play football or basketball; or to play ice hockey. It doesn't indicate social intelligence, the ability to relate to all people on their own social turf: to relate to the homemaker as much as the blue collar worker, the academician, and the executive. It doesn't measure the ability to "think outside the box" as each puzzle requires one and only one answer. Even mathematicians know better than this, as precise as their branch of learning is. Scientists really know this. Writing in one form and another is taught throughout school. Yet there are surprisingly few authors, judging from the multitude of people seeking others to write for them (for little or nothing). There are experts in details and other experts in the big picture. Then there are those that bridge the two and more.
Scientists have agreed that intelligence quotient means very little, and it even increases with age and experience.
Introversion and extraversion is a separate concept altogether. However, being with people of like mind is often comforting.
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Just to clarify, military personnel take the same oath that the President does, that every government worker down to the clerks on the basic level take:
To support and defend the Constitution of the US against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
We take this obligation FREELY, without mental reservation or purpose of evasion. (Yes, I was a government worker, too.)
Yes, as citizens of this country, everyone has opinions. But while serving their offices in uniform, our military must act in accordance with this oath, and they have prescribed ways of doing so.
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We get it. People are listening. People understand what's going on. And, yes, debates do not tell how an election goes.
Still, I am interested in how the second debate might go.
Do you know why the democrats are "spineless?" It's because we think about consequences. We think about possible outcomes. Republicans, in the other hand, put out set-in-stone convictions, give no indications of wanting to negotiate bipartisan policy, and then can't and don't cover the checks they write.
Biden talks about what he does, what he did, and what he plans to do. He cares, and so does Kamala Harris. They delivered on their promises, and they will continue to.
Trump takes credit for what Biden and Obama did. He has no plan of his own. He threw out the playbook of the previous administration on how to handle the pandemic that happened.
Trump had no idea what to do and passed on gibberish and stuff he found on the Internet, the most ridiculous and dangerous ideas. He turned away a shipload of PPE gifted by Chinese! I figure because it was sent by the Chinese. He is very Xenophobic!
It was up to each of the 50 governors of our states to protect the individual states. The governors got together to share ideas about how to deal with Covid-19. Then Trump screamed it was 100 governors ganging up on him. Tripe!
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I can write a better book than WB, even with some mundane things such as classes.
Classes at school had meaning to me (all except American History, though I wrote a hella good research paper on Looney Toons 40's cartoons and their role in WWII).
I have a story about a high school young lady who takes her fascination for science to a personal meaning and project for herself.
A good book is one in which all the elements of a story move the action along. If the writing doesn't move the story along, or if it bogs down in description without being significant to the character, their back story, or the necessaries to complete the story, good writers cut it out or modify it. That's a big part of story writing.
There are plenty of "shoot - em - up" games, either realistic or cartoon-y, that engage those who like to hit targets. There are puzzles a-plenty to challenge a person's logic, and plenty of sweet, animal - cuteness apps to appeal to the "awwww!" factor in people. The staying power of these is variety, moving the story along — or in case of the app "Klepto Cats", new cats bringing in new items for you as you let them in and out of your virtual home, and you earn and dress them in "kawaii outfits and cool accessories.
Goals are immediate, even as they are in books (relatively), and even moreso in movies.
The best apps aren't necessarily done by large companies. WB replied on its own reputation in the video industry, Looney Toons, and Harry Potter to promote their app, and it sucks. But Klepto Cats or Cut the Rope have engaging power. Though each has its engagement life cycle.
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Bill Burke saying common sense was needed, and for sure it was. But that was closing the barn door after the horse got loose.
I don't know if you used stock video for the computer program, but I'm guessing that the programmer didn't document the program.
Text at the beginning that is marked as not part of the program, or notes in the programming itself also marked as not part of the program is one important and obvious way to document, but so is self- documentation.
Self-documentation makes the names of every variable and a functions and other elements that are marked with names that indicate what they are. Instead of a, b, c, a variable might be "Number_of_People_Studied" or "Sales" or "BoxID" or other similar descriptions.
Nowadays, documentation is one of the primary elements of good programming and is absolutely necessary for creating and maintaining programs.
Self-documenting is important to make sense of the program pathways. And it can give active and immediate reference to the part being programmed or studied.
While documentation is a lot of horse sense, programming is not, and it can be hard to see the consequences the program has on the real world and on real people.
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I'm not so sure about saying America is an empire, although I may be a biased American. The US is one country, not like the British Empire which comprised several countries (including Canada, India, and Australia). The British Empire had countries across the world. Now it recognizes much of its former colonies as sovereign nations, but each of them is loyal to the Crown. If not loyal, then friendly mates. America has supported Britain at war even as America has supplied allies with troops and arms, for better or worse.
Indeed, America has been snidely called "Big Brother" after the governing body in the book 1984. Many commentators ("talking heads") have also upbraided the American Military as Big Brother, too. Throwing our military might around.
There are checks and balances in the US government, and it is governed by not only the President, but also by Congress (House of Representatives and Senate) and Judicial (US Supreme Court of the United States and the lower systems of courts) branches.
The President cannot declare war. Only Congress has that right. The House of Representatives can impeach a federal government office holder including and most well-known being the President, but only the Senate can try and convict threw one impeached.
Different divisions have their specific duties and privileges.
Besides that, The First Amendment gives the right to Americans of freedom of speech, something which has kept us together as a country since we started. How? By allowing people to let off steam. You can say, "The President is a fink!" and you won't get arrested and tried for treason. It has helped diffuse so much anger and disgruntlement. But freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of peaceable assembly, and freedom to redress grievances—and freedom of religion—have allowed Americans to come up with creative ways to grow this country.
For instance, Muhammed Ali, famous boxer, Olympic gold medal winner, and humanitarian protested the Viet Nam War. He said he as a brown man was not going to another country to kill another brown man. Such was the controversy over that war. Americans all over the country protested it. Many did get arrested for supposedly rioting (not peaceable assembly, but the lines were blurred), but there was a lot of coverage by the American press, and Americans learned about it and made their own minds up about it.
The American Founding Fathers made the decision not to allow or make tariffs from state to state because it would cost too much to transport goods from coast to coast where you could easily cross ten states from California to New York.
I don't see America falling apart. We are bound economically, we're friendly with our neighbors Canada and Mexico, and we have never had to conscript soldiers since the 1960's. We have an all volunteer military!
We have many things a lot of countries might be jealous of.
We don't have a military culture. We don't have mandatory military service. We move freely between states. We vote for our leaders, and we have Rule of Law as much as adversarial counsel (lawyers; attorneys) in court.
We also have checks on that, too. If a court cases lost, the person can take it to a higher court, who reviews it for proper procedure and presentation of evidence.
There is so much in our United States Constitution about who does what, that it has been a successful blueprint for this country for nearly 250 years. I don't see our cohesive nation falling apart very soon.
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Rodney Howard Brown: "If they sneeze it, it shoots it 100 mph..."
I don't know what he thinks is going 100 mph, but whatever it is, he's off. A sneeze is between 2,000 and 3,000 mph, and anything that is "shot" in the other direction 1, won't be able to react fast enough for a sneeze, 2 could be triggered by regular breathing if it does, and 3,if it does, a sneeze would prevent it from working.
4, if whatever "shoots it" down your throat does work, it can cause tissue damage or dangerous aspiration.
Just don't.
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Oh, yeah. I hope you were humoring him by saying "centrifugal force," because there is no such thing.
"Centrifugal force" describes a force outward from a connected source that the object exerts. But there is no force the object exerts. We see that an object at rest stays at rest unless acted on by an outside force. This is Newton's first law, and it is proved on a billiards tabletop. None of the balls at rest start moving by themselves. Once a ball is hit (a force is applied) it starts moving, even if you make the lousiest hit. And it keeps on going til a force acts on it: it hits another ball; it hits the edge of a pocket and gravity pulls it in; friction of the table stops it; it hits a bumper; it is stopped by another outside force. It does not stop by itself. (a hockey puck on an ice rink demonstrates it better)
Centripetal force is the proper term. Gravity affects all objects (and even light!) at all times. When an object is within Low Earth Orbit, Earth's gravity affects an object the most. This happens anywhere, but Earth is what we experience. Gravity is an acceleration, 9.8 m/s/s. Take the object of the International Space Station. In orbit around the Earth, it has an angular momentum, mass of the station times the velocity of the station. How? Gravity of Earth tugs on it. This tug gets the station to move in a certain direction. Because of where the station is when it gets tugged and the acceleration of gravity, the station goes outward. But the Earth acts on the station more, so the station is pulled to Earth in the next moment and the next moment and so on. Earth's outside gravity keeps tugging on the station while the station wants to hurtle into space in the direction it was tugged. But the Earth keeps accelerating it in an entirely different direction all the time, pulling the station constantly so that the space station is pulled into a circle around the Earth.
The velocity of the space station, if Earth's gravity were nullified, would go in the direction of the last force acting on it (force being the station's mass times the acceleration of gravity), which is perpendicular to the direction of gravity, which is toward Earth's center, approximately.
In contrast, the concept of centrifugal force says that if gravity were nullified, the space station would fly off in the opposite direction of the force on it by gravity. That is, at right angles to the observed direction our space station would take since it really would follow Newton's First Law of Motion.
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I wonder, after all this is done, if Trump could live like I do.
I have the equivalent of a $30,000.00 per year in Kentucky lifestyle. I wouldn't expect him to live without a car like I do, although you could do that in New York. So add about $18,000 per year for monthly payment and maintenance and taxes and license and Real ID drivers license. About $50,000.00.
Add on another $10,000.00 for extras like going out to eat or subscribe to a food delivery service, or getting extras like nice things online or restaurant dinners, or travel every once in a while.
$60,000.00
I'd like an income like that. I could at least travel around in a car. Maybe do more things around my own city of Louisville.
But could he manage to live off of it for his entire income?
I dare him to do it for a year:
Live on $60,000.00 for a year
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Host Joe
This is rather a supplement to learning language. When I learned Latin in high school for 2 years (spending most of my second year translating the stories of Jason and the Argonauts: excellent stories), I didn't learn anything except the vocabulary, sentence structure, conjugations, declensions, indefinite articles (e.g. hic, haec, hoc, and their different forms for different parts of speech). I learned some about etymology only outside of the languages I learned. Still, because I learned Latin, and in college German, I have a background to draw upon to understand in depth.
Want to know more? Take a Romance language. Better yet, take Latin! 😁
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I grew up with Mr. Zip!
I also worked at the Post Office main branch in my city of Louisville, KY, both on one of the older machines as a MUM clerk (mis-sorted, unzipped, mis-sent), and the newer OCR's. we MUM clerks would type the zip code of each mail piece to re-sort them. Fun machine!
I also worked on the floor where original mail was sorted on the OCR's, those automated machines that sort mail at the speed of a hurricane! They get fed, the machine sorts mail into stacks which get boxed in those postal trays you've seen, and covers are slipped onto the boxes, a zip code label put on it, and it goes to its next stop on the trucks for local delivery, or to its delivery point by air nationally or internationally.
I loved working there! I wish I could continue to work there! Alas! When you aren't a permanent employee, you can't work there more than six months out of the year!
I'd say, though, that such a situation would make perfect summer work for a teacher!
If I could have stayed, I would have made a career of the United States Postal Service!
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They really should get that zip - code thing right in that movie. HE might not know what the Zip code thing is for, but I DO! It's for the mail - sorting machines.
If the zip is not readable by the OCR machine, a picture of that piece of mail is taken and sent to a computer bank in another department of - site, where people sit at a screen and read these zip codes and enter them on a keyboard, and these are sent back to match with the resorted mail.
So, yes they do mean something: the continued fast - tracking of mail. I have worked on the OCR's and on the zip-reading computers, as a MUM clerk (missent, unsorted, mis-zipped mail), and some hand - cased mail. If there are hand - cased (hand sorted and canceled) mail, its volume won't reach anywhere near the capacity of one mail tray in a day if at all. Just a smattering that wouldn't even stand up in a tray. Of all the mail processed at the main post office in Louisville, KY where I live, it's remarkable we would even have a half - hour's worth of hand-casing in a day! Everything from letters and bills and junk mail, catalogues and magazines are handled with amazing machines!
I adore the Post Office!
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My kitchen dishes and bowls MUST be microwavable. Thick polypropylene is microwaveable. I have some polypropylene cups I picked up free from a local fair/festival that I microwave water in for hot beverages. I have heavy - duty kitchen scissors for all kinds of cutting jobs, even sometimes Yorkshire pudding and pizza. I started with one sauce pan and stock/pasta pot which took care of most soups, sauces, and pasta dishes. And I have made in the past 2 days two batches of borscht in my 5-quart stock pot. I have cast - iron skillets, presents from a friend, which I have grown up cooking with, and a steel - clad steel skillet I absolutely adore cooking in. (avocado burritos anyone?)
A can opener, a church key (for juice cans), and a Gilhoolie—the best jar lid opener in the world! And a knife sharpener. I don't need steak knives, but a butcher knife, a utility knife, and a paring knife are my go-to's, as well as a good cleaver.
And silicone dipper, spatula, and large spoon. My steel spatula is more efficient, though. And bowl scrapers. And bowls for my stand mixer my Mom gave me. Yes, I have a waffle maker, but it was a long - ago purchase and I'd rather keep it. And my slow cooker is quite useful. And so are YouTube channels like "The Magic Slow Cooker"
I look for simple recipes (over five ingredients is pushing it), with ingredients that are familiar. I get herbs and spices in bulk. I get a large cut of meat and either have the butcher cut it or parcel it myself into individual cuts I wrap and freeze.
I get dry favorite beans. I save the bone in a ham for green beans and other beans as well.
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In Der Schloss (The Castle), a land surveyor of note was summoned by the leader of a town to survey the town's real estate. Once he arrives, the surveyor encounters the apathy of the people, although they are willing to share hospitality with him. The surveyor, being proud of his career, his knowledge, and his commission from the leader of the town, dearly wants to get on with it. Yet he doesn't know where to start and feels he must get to the leader (I think it's a mayor) to find out particulars. The people around him don't help him, and they invite him to stay and be sociable.
Indeed, the more the surveyor tries to reach the mayor at the center of town, the farther away he gets. Much of his time is taken up by useless bureaucracy. It would drive anyone crazy including myself, and I consider myself a master of bureaucracy navigation.
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I recommend for every toolbox: pliers (standard, needlenose, and adjustable), locking pliers (small, medium, large, and needlenose), crescent wrench, utility knife, hammer, and multiple - bit, adjustable-angle screwdriver. These take care of many needs.
Sewing tools: needles called sharps, some ballpoint needles for knits, glover's needle for leather and vinyl, scissors, black and white standard mercerized thread, buttons packs from your better clothes, and a seam ripper and tape measure. Learn invisible hem stitch, running stitch, sewing buttons, and blanket stitch.
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Science is why I wanted to take German in college, and in college I was introduced to the German scientific publication, Beilstein.
My Gram used to sing to us "Du, Du Liegst Mir im Haertzen," so I did know German wasn't a bombastic language. In college, I was delighted to hear the speech of my teachers, one who looked like a young Santa Claus, the other like Artie Johnson.
Artie Johnson played on a variety show called Laugh In, and he played a German soldier peering through a bunch of tall grass saying slyly, "Very interesting!" after a slightly risqué sketch. Quizzical and low key.
That, and I wanted to speak the language of half of my ancestors.
A lady friend of mine from Germany is a very jovial and light-hearted lady, and she speaks German to me and I to her. It's great fun!
Her sister with her boyfriend visited her, and we were putting up posters in different places. Armin the boyfriend and I finished first, so we struck up a conversation with each other. I in German, he in English. My friend said that Armin still talks about how well I speak German! That is so flattering from a native speaker it makes me giddy!
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I remember a conversation between my surgical nurse and my sister and me (we're American). The nurse was giving us instructions about my upcoming surgery, and I noticed that both my sister and I have the same understanding response, "Mm-hm, mm-hm." and both of us said this phrase not only simultaneously, but also matched the pitch going up simultaneously. And it meant, "I understand, go on." So yes, Americans have this same response technique, but I find it interesting that even in families there are close speech inflections. In the case of my sister and me, identical responses, words and inflections both.
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I was going to vote for Bernie Sanders. I really wanted to vote for him instead of Hillary Clinton because I preferred his policy. When he dropped out before the Democrats' primary, I was so upset I was going to write him in.
My friends tried to talk me out of it saying it was essentially a vote for Trump. I said I didn't think so, that everyone should vote their heart. I reacted vehemently against their outcries.
How did I vote? I voted for Hillary Clinton against Trump. And I did not regret that decision, though I was very sad on Primary Day and General Election Day.
Did I vote that way because of my friends' arguments? No. Did I vote in reaction to Trump? maybe a little. But I mainly voted because I knew deep down that in 2016 Trump was a menace to society. I couldn't let that happen. So I joined the side that gave the popular vote to Clinton, but the electorate to Trump.
(We really need to get rid of the Electoral College.)
TL;DR
I look back, now, and I know I was right in making my own decision in voting for Clinton. Not because it was a vote against Trump. Not because I would have been on the side of destroying this country. But because Clinton did offer a viable and workable alternative to Bernie Sanders' policy.
We may disagree on how to do it. And we may disagree on how to fund it. But people in Congress (at least before 2016) were willing to at least debate policy. And the message by John McCain said it best when a woman called Obama an Arab. McCain said, "No ma'am." that Obama was a decent man that McCain just had differences of opinion on policy but that McCain liked him.
Obama even said he would like to share a bourbon with Mitch McConnell, and that he could always count on McConnell to tell him just how Republicans would vote.
I'm sure that Biden has a much tougher time with Republicans today because of MAGA. To wit: the security issues addressed by the aid package to Ukraine legislation that gave Republicans everything they asked for. But when Donald Trump said to vote against it, Republicans scuttled it.
As a Chinese curse exhorts, we live in interesting times.
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I know this is an unapologetically liberal channel, and I respect that. I also am unapologetically liberal, and I —well, for lack of a medium strong synonym—hate Donald Trump and what he's doing to everybody.
AND I do not think he should get out of any sentence he has already earned.
That said, I believe that in becoming more and more unhinged, that there is actually something wrong with him.
I am bipolar, and to get what income I do, I must submit to an evaluation by an independent psychiatrist to make sure I'm still disabled. (It's a lifelong disability.)
If the government checks to make sure that I and all other Social Security recipients are still disabled, there should be an independent psychiatrist who evaluates Donald Trump.
In cases when people cannot manage their living, especially finances, a power of attorney often takes the reins.
Take from that what you will.
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So dragons live in mountains and hoard gold. Seraphim are known as copper serpents with wings and long, fiery nostrils that blow smoke.
My thoughts:
Copper is easily smelted and cast, hammered and drawn into wire.
Gold is an impurity of copper. In fact, the source of gold in the US is copper mines.
Another thing that the description of a dragon snout could be is a volcano. Clastic volcanoes are tall and cone - shaped, spewing smoke or dust (and rock) like Mt. St. Helens. This is as opposed to shield volcanoes such as Mt. Pele in Hawaii that are mostly lava.
Still, clastic volcanoes also issue lava. And this could be the vision of a dragon's nostrils and head. Lava itself is golden in color and might be thought of as a dragon's hoard. And dust and smoke can look like all manner of things.
But I think this all reduces religion to idol worship, and there is so much more to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
And one more item, the Christian New Testament seems to present a God that is much different from the Old Testament God. To me, it seemed to me that the Old Testament was like teaching children, while the New Testament seemed like teaching teens and adults.
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Lukashenko sounds a lot like American President Trump. I figure Trump read Lukashenko's and Putin's playbook and tried to implement it in USA.
TL;DR
There are several reasons why it didn't work
1. We weren't going to be divided as a country by creating a "Middle Eastern and Mexican refugee haters" faction. Black Americans have been awakening people to care about all peoples rights including theirs. More people advocate for black and brown people now than ever in history.
2. Despite inherent bias against non- white people, both blacks and whites and other ethnic groups have protested successfully without being jailed. It is our right, written straight into our Constitution: "Congress shall make no law ...forbidding the freedom of speech or of the press..."
All the 50 states have similar writing in State Constitutions. No protesters peaceably assembled should be jailed, and for the most part, they weren't.
3. We have real elections and more than 1 party. For example, the Republican party, the Democratic party, the Green party, and the Libertarian party. Each party has a party election to choose whom the people want to represent them. These are Primaries. The General Election is where people vote for the one candidate they want to lead as President.
This grab for power didn't work for Trump, even though he tried to sabotage mail-in ballots by having the Postmaster General remove mail-sorting machines. He also tried to command vote counters to stop counting votes. Didn't work. Government workers swear service to the Constitution and by extension, the Rule of Law, not to a President. Violating that brings fines and jail time.
3. President Trump tried to persuade both the Governor of Georgia and VP Pence to first cut out a fixed number of pro-Biden ballots that would allow Trump to win a second election. He told VP Pence to not certify the election. And you can't tell my he didn't whip up his followers to storm the Capitol building.
4. Our president would have tried to introduce a bill to abolish the limitation on the number of Presidential terms they can serve. (the irony is that Trump's party had put in the term limitation against the Democrats because of the only president to sit more than 3 terms, Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
5. All the things dictators and monarchs do at the expense of their people, like profiting materially and monetarily from being in office (besides the salary paid to office-holders) are specifically prohibited by the Constitution. This also includes trying to pin wrongdoing on potential election rivals.
Donald Trump was impeached twice for these violations, and he even now faces civil and criminal charges against him that he committed while in office, and even before he'd become president.
President Trump threatened to call on the US Military to prevent the peaceful transfer of power we have enjoyed these past 252 years. The military said they will respond to that person who becomes president on Inauguration Day. The military also swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, that document which defines exactly how government officers are chosen and how they conduct themselves in office. Not any one president.
6. The free press—the free media—are allowed to scrutinize government officers. They have this unabridged right to record everything in government and report it to the American People.
Because of all these reasons and more, Trump's ruse to turn the US into a dictatorship with undefined limits was foiled. We the People weren't fooled. If anything, Trump did a great service for us by galvanizing Americans to the causes we felt were important.
There were masses of women in pink kitty-ear hats, masses of scientists motivated out of their ivory towers, and masses of black people who peacefully protested at Washington D.C. ,as it was their right—my right, too—to redress grievances, assemble peaceably, and say what we want with few exceptions.
“Politicians are like diapers. they need to be changed often, and for the same reasons.”
—Mark Twain
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Just to throw this into the mix, there are a number of things doctors do differently from back in Hippocrates' time.
First, no one swears by Zeus or any other Greek deities in their oath.
Second, they cut, jab, sew, and other manners of breaking skin and other tissues for successful medical treatment of a patient.
Patients are treated with poisons and other deleterious materials such as chemo and radiation for things like cancer. For cancer, chemo often seems to bring a patient as close to death as possible without actually killing them. Harming a patient is strictly forbidden in the Hippocratic Oath.
When a patient goes into ventricular (or atrial) fibrillation, an electrical shock is applied to the body and the heart is allowed to restart itself. (also treated with other medicines)
Doctors give women prescriptions for birth control, or women get over-the-counter methods.
In the Hippocratic Oath, a doctor can't give a woman a pessary, which is an ancient form of birth control on the same order as an IUD today.
Some medical schools give a modified oath like one that the new doctor promises to practice medicine in accordance with the law.
Other medical schools don't administer an oath at all. Because if helping a patient is banned by a 3000 yo oath, why be a doctor?
Medicine has surely changed and become more sophisticated in 3000 years. Hippocrates could not have predicted it. Best not to take an oath, IMO if successful medicine changes.
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To anyone who thinks voters can cheat, I invite them to take the training for working the polls AND to work the polls on Election Day when picked. Then you can see firsthand the safeguards put into place. You will see you cannot vote illegally.
There are actual lists of voters in every state in the US. In order to get a ballot, a voter must SIGN a roll whether it be a physical, paper rollbook or signing electronically. You must say who you are. The drivers license is to show you are you.
There are poll workers who have worked in their neighborhoods since time immemorial, and they know most if not all the people who come up to vote.
It used to be that a poll worker was allowed to recognize their voters on sight. That's because most poll workers come from their own neighborhood, not from across town. They had to show that by marking a little bubble by the choice of "recognized by poll worker." And they were responsible for that.
Personally, I think that's the strongest identification. But they took it away. NO poll worker is going to take responsibility for someone they don't know. And don't say Democratic poll workers will deny Republican voters.
WRONG!
There's a SEPARATE rollbook and a separate voter line each for Democrats and for Republicans.
Voters are ID'd by a PICTURE ID. They are tallied by signature on the books. There is NO WAY you can vote more than once once your name is signed off.
Before you get a ballot, the poll worker writes the number of the ballot next to your name. Even if you spoil a ballot, the spoiled ballot is kept in a separate, large envelope and logged on the envelope. The number of it stays on your signature in the rollbook, and the new ballot number is written beside it.
There is no way to cheat and vote multiple times, nor is there any way for a person not on the rolls to vote at all. Illegal immigrants cannot vote. Legal immigrants who are not citizens cannot vote. All these instances are covered. It just cannot be.
ESPECIALLY when Republicans purge the voter rolls regularly.
So anyone who claims voters vote illegally, even by dead "voters" is lying or has no idea how the voter system works.
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I'm not sure I believe a Trump second term (God Forbid!) will quite be what you say. I think things could be violent and that he could have an uprising on his hands. One thing Americans won't do is let go of their guns. Of all the rights gun owners will insist on is their right to bear arms.
And another thing he must contend with is a military who will not just follow orders. Our military are not just automatons. They are smart, thinking people with the desire to protect the country.
If Donald Trump wants to send SEAL team 6 after political rivals, first remember they are first a part of the American military and thus put country FIRST. Second, Trump needs to remember that when he points a finger at somebody, there are three fingers pointed back at him.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
—William Shakespeare
We had so many scientists turn out at the Capitol peacefully protesting against climate change policy.
Before that, there was the pink pussy hat peaceful demonstration asking for reproduction rights and rights to proper healthcare for women.
Also, there is at least one SCOTUS Justice who is profiting from his position and so was his wife who would not want to give up his own position of power and prestige.
And I think, between these groups of people, that Trump will have significant push back.
I don't want it to happen, but should it, I cling to these.
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CEO's thinking they can slice the cream profit off their business refuse to understand that the business will fail without investing in the Frontline workers: living wages, incentives, reasonable time off, reasonable hours, robust medical insurance,school assistance, savings programs, and retirement. Middle management wages, incentives, and continuing educatoion are next. CEO is paid a REASONABLE salary (oh, say, six figures in the US). Investors get SOME return but only in response to the market and in proportion to their holdings. Most gets reinvested into the company itself.
To wit:
"Yankee Dood It"
https://youtu.be/2auI6Uz3D8I?si=ih-CtWAuAsLb_hp9
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I agreed with every move Judge Merchan made, even the extra leeway he gave Trump. He didn't want a mistrial—something Donald Trump so desperately would love to have seen. A mistrial would automatically put the re-trial beyond the general election. And I wanted to see at least some justice served.
This conviction made Trump a felon.
And if I heard correctly in one of the interview shows, the media automatically have to refer to Trump as a felon.
That matters in some voters' minds. As it should, IMO.
It also speaks to Merchan's skills as a judge that the way he picked through Trump's landmines was masterful. His addressing of the gag order violations danced right on the edge of too far, but he hasn't forgotten, as he still has to sentence Trump.
I am satisfied for the moment that Trump is a convicted felon. It already has consequences ahead of the election.
My hope is that any MAGA activities are limited to picnics and barbecues in parks, whatever their views. To enjoy the freedom to be out in the summer sun and the government-protected parks.
Also NOT taking cross-country trips to places they can't afford, to create havoc they can't afford, to getting jail time they can't afford, and maybe spending their summer in a low-light cell that you can hardly walk around in, subject to a hundred restrictions they've never had to bear as an enfranchised, free American.
I can hear some of the Karens, whatever their gender, yelling about their rights and then being told by the proper person that jail takes away some, if not all, of those rights.
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I remember my little sister telling about basic training in the Army National Guard with things like pummeling with pugel sticks yelling, "kill!"
And crawling through sand pits so she was blowing sand boogers for days.
To receive mail, a recruit had to do 10 pushups for each piece of mail. She had done 50 pushups for five pieces of mail, and she asked, "Permission to recover, Drill Sergeant?" and the Drill Sergeant said, "No! Ten more pushups!" She asked again, but again, "No! Ten more pushups!" Her reward was seven letters that day.
I was on the receiving end of one of her moves. She grabbed me on my shoulders from behind and pulled me down as she dropped, cushioning my head with her arm.
Yes, the American military train hard and well. When I picked her up at graduation, she looked as chiseled as the men were! I couldn't tell them all apart!
I think it is amazing we the US have an all-volunteer military! But the people who join do indeed join because they have a fierce love of their country and a fierce desire to protect it.
The training is specific and applicable. I don't think they are subjected to anything not necessary.
My sister was taking down code over the radio, and from the corner of her eye she saw everyone stiffen up. She finished her work before she stood up and greeted the visiting Colonel and said, "Sorry I didn't come to attention right away."
"That's okay, Soldier," said the Colonel, "I'd rather you be doing your job."
Another time my sister apologized for her short legs and not being able to run fast.
"That's okay, Soldier, I'd rather have you fighting beside me in the field than running away!"
My Uncle's niece was in the Navy, and she was beckoned over to a table where 2 generals sat. They asked her what she thought of a certain Drill Sergeant. "Cupcake, Sir. " meaning she thought this Drill Sergeant was very easy.
This proves to me that the US military wants its Soldiers , sailors and Marines to use their initiative to make good decisions on their own as much as rely on their training.
Unlike Russian forces.
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@Spathephoros
A 4-star general has too much to lose to admit this. Imaging losing your whole career of 30 years along with your 401K and other retirement benefits, your substantial medical benefits, your CEO status, your contacts in business, your influence, your very high salary, your 4-5 weeks of vacation a year (more!), your jet travel, your limousine privileges, your sea travel, and your voting rights for a jail cell for the rest of your life or at least 20 years, some of it buck naked. This is what this general risks in military terms.
An officer doesn't do this because someone watches out for them. And he is one of the highest ranking.
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Yes, state borders can be changed. In Kentucky back in the 1980's the KY-IN border was at the Indiana side of the river. For a short time —because Indiana wanted to put casino boats in the Ohio River — somehow the border was changed to the middle of the river. To that point, Kentucky did not allow casinos. It was an attempt of Indiana to get revenue from Kentuckians who would gamble on a boat.
Kentucky then said that Indiana casino boats were not allowed to dock on the Kentucky bank of the river.
In my estimation, I think it was somebody with power trying to get Kentucky to change laws about gambling in Kentucky. Probably had a stake in potential casinos. Kentucky allows gambling, now (The Kentucky Derby notwithstanding), and the Kentucky border has been returned to the bank on the Indiana side, as it should be, with the Ohio River part of Kentucky, not Indiana.
Besides, if you couldn't change state borders, how do we have all the states in the West? How is Texas like it is? Virginia? West Virginia? Kentucky? Louisiana? And every state in the Louisiana Purchase?
Or is it revenue through land taxes, school allocations, and other allocations based on land? Money is loud and bombastic, for sure.
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I have been written up at work. The writeup involved the mistaken testing of two persons' blood samples; I pulled the wrong numbered sample for the wrong test.
The writeup was very businesslike, and I responded in a businesslike fashion. I took the instruction graciously, and I did understand that was not the time or place to protest. The writeup, though succinct, did not have any followup to do except to be more vigilant when I pick out the samples.
I did send computer messages to him and marked them such that I would be sent a notice that they had been read. And I printed them out.
I requested review training, and I asked for training I had been previously promised for my edification. I got no responses, and I printed out that they had gotten read.
Then I was given busy work that had nothing to do with the lab testing that was my job.
Then I was called in by my supervisor, and his supervisor, and another supervisor. I can't remember the wording of it, but they dropped a file folder on the table and said that's why they were firing me.
I didn't look at the contents of the folder or even pick it up. I was devastated and horrified, and I knew if I picked it up I would cry horribly over it, and I was barely hanging on with my game face.
I asked them calmly what it was, was it more samples I missed? No. What then?
I did not receive any more explanation, and I didn't ask. They gave the suggestion, "Go get a job at a gas station and find out what's wrong" with myself.
They fired me and denied me unemployment.
I got a hearing at the unemployment office appealing my denial. I was scared shitless. I kept my game face and I brought my pile of printouts. I expected the company would send their meanest exec to "shout me down" and cause my denial to stick.
I met with the arbitrator calmly and businesslike. We waited till appointment time and possibly a little after. Then he turned on his recording machine and dictated the hearing, the date, time, parties, the arbitrator, and the presence of each party. He dictated I was there, and when he said the company party was not there, it seemed to me he put quite a bit of emphasis on it. After his preamble, he had me give my side of the story. I told it, explained what it was and what I did afterwards. I gave over my pile of printouts, and I pointed out the salient messages and that they had been read but ignored.
He concluded his recording with a few more notes, and we shook hands at the end.
A short time later, I was awarded unemployment.
This is one possible reason why you do not want to quit or ask for severance pay: it could screw you up for unemployment that they would be fined for.
In retrospect, when I looked at the situation from what I knew then and what was brought up at the time, I did right. They did not, and they acted this way as a matter of course. I had seen a number of good people come and go from that place with no explanation, and I have my suspicions.
I learned a few things.
1. You could be doing the best job anyone could do and still get fired.
2. Just because they fire you doesn't mean you particularly are in the wrong.
3. Arbitrators at the Unemployment Office who conduct hearings aren't monsters, and parties necessarily must be cordial to each other.
4. Keep a paper trail. Any messages sent, keep hard copies. Send messages in such a way you get a message back that says it's been read. E-mail has that ability to get a read receipt.
5. By the same token, keep a journal of what happens at work. I would include what I have done, good and bad, and what they did.
6. Always apply for unemployment. You don't get if you don't apply.
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Lifelessness to life! This is one thing that is being continually studied today! It is studied in many situations where probable primordial environments are based on early Earth resources. Oxygen was rare, but methane was abundant.
It was found that these elements, especially C, H, N, O, form organically active, amino - acid - like chains that can even replicate themselves in a rudimentary sense.
Indeed! Science News updates I've seen seem to demonstrate that RNA—that replicating, transcribing, translating, messengering, and DNA checking molecule— may be responsible for much more than we know about. It is even suggested RNA predates DNA as the original replication molecule with DNA coming later in Earth's history.
And today, the all - popular tube worms who live at lava and magma deep - sea vents show Sulfur metabolism for their energy, and their unusual properties have led to some of the new thinking on RNA as well.
And in no way should this (or can this!) be dismissed, for this is current evidence which can be even obtained personally with deep - sea scuba diving training and knowing what you're looking at.
And yet, even the Bible hints at science being involved in planning. I point to the story of Joseph, next youngest son of Jacob, whom was sold into slavery but whose talents were used to save the Egyptians from famine, and also Jewish folk during those famines.
How science? It has to do with how grain grows in areas on the edge of bodies of water that are drying up. Calcium deposits from receding waters produce an interesting phenomenon that has been detected at true crop formations. These true crop formations have been found at drying bodies of water. The heads of the grains have been changed by radiation in the area, and these heads of grain are successfully grown, generation after generation, up to seven generations, producing abundant, robust, and nutritional grain to last the seven growing seasons.
Bible readers would be interested to know that the years of plenty numbered seven, and the abundance of this grain allowed the Egyptians and surrounding folk to survive.
The years of plenty were not a fortune - telling phenomenon. They indicated something the Egyptians dealt with a lot: dried - up waters. The years of plenty signaled when they needed to stockpile their grain for especially bad times.
And so they knew how many years they could get out of their crops, and how much they needed to put back.
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Wrong! The ABO and Rh antigens are NOT the only antigens, though they are the main ones. There are I, J, K, M, N, T and several more antigens and antibodies to test, and the typing analysis results look like a crossword puzzle when finished.
But that's not enough. Because there might be some antigen we don't know about, recipient blood is cross - matched with donor blood. The string of packets of blood hanging from a blood unit are used to mix with recipient blood to see if it clumps. If it does, an unknown antigen is present that can endanger a patient. If no clumping occurs, the unit is safe to use.
And how are antibodies treated in a unit of whole blood? These might cause problems, too.
A whole blood unit is separated into plasma and red cells. The red cells become a unit I of "Packed Cells" with added citrate to prevent clotting. Plasma contains the white cells and are removed with the plasma to keep from attacking a recipient.
Alternatively, people are encouraged to give platelets for people with hemophilia or bleeding disorder. It takes ten donations to create a unit of platelets or enough for creating blood clotting factor.
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This reminds me of how people write numerals from different places (the Hindu - Arabic numerals we write with in America) Most people draw the neck and the body of 5 first as one stroke and cross the tip of the neck with the top line from left to right. However many draw the entire 5 from the top, right to left at top, then down, then around. Both work. It just depends on what is right for you.
8 is a single squiggle from upper right, around left, crossing to a curve on the right then crossing over again with another curve to meet the starting point. Some people draw a left semicircle then an adjoining right semicircle, then underneath do another circle joining the top circle, and it is 8 also. Then others make an 8 out of 2 single circles too and bottom. And then there is the 7. Depending on the country, you either cross the vertical line once, or not, but both are recognized as 7.
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President Biden is too much of a gentleman to use the immunity decision. That just goes against the President's creed.
Besides, even if Trump was sentenced with a possible death penalty which he would not get because this is his first adjudged crime,
Trump would not get the death sentence anyway. It would just be too easy on him.
However, he might already feel like he is dead and in Hell. Forced to sit in court, ignored by everyone. Confronted with 34 guilty verdicts. Confronted by the people who got sick of his betrayals and broke their silence.
Trump's loyalists leaving. The people in his cult who would go where he said and do what Trump implied; they left and told others what he does.
Trump's base is falling apart. That must be Hell for him. He just wants to blame his whining on Democrats and "Never-Trumpers."
I never saw a "Never-Trumper" lose anything career-wise. I never saw an escapee of Trump's cult die, or I'm sure the MTN would bring it up. Trump thought he had a flock of sheep at his beck and call. But many of them, including J6 perpetrators, have taken responsibility for their actions and warned others online. They called out the Trump cult and said get out before it's too late.
On Fourth of July, they might have sat easily in their back yard and cooked a lovely cookout to enjoy. Perhaps Porterhouse steaks medium rare on a new Williams -Sonoma grill they bought with money they would have spent road-tripping to Washington D.C.
What an exercise of freedom to celebrate! Freedom from crime! Freedom from control! Freedom from a wannabe dictator!
I hope they will join me at the polls as I hope you all will, voting for Biden and Harris as well as voting Blue downballot. Because the President isn't enough. Congress is equally important. And judges at the county and state level, since they mete out justice directly. Rarely do cases appealed get to the Supreme Court.
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Works for me.
Trying to find truth is very difficult and requires a lot of testing and evaluation.
I did wonder if the fragment writing showed grammar of the time or not.
For example, once in English history it was common to say "four and twenty," whereas now we say "twenty - four" here for the same number 24. Who knows what it will be in two centuries? Two dodec or 20 base 12?
Or even subject (S) , verb (V) , and object (O) order. American and British English go SVO. German is
mostly SOV. IIUC, Japanese is OVS.
In Latin and Romance languages, conjugations lead to a separate verb for each form of pronouns:
In English,
I love
You love
He, she, or it loves
We love
You (plural) love
They love.
In Latin, respectively:
Amo
Amas
Amat
Amamus
Amatis
Amant
And Latin has a completely different set of words for the same verb in past tense, future tense, past perfect tense, future perfect ("I will have done that), Vocative ("O Dave!"), the subjunctive or hypothetical ("If I were to do that, then...."), and others.
What, then, were the grammar and syntax of the time?
Edit: it was not just one set of conjugations like above that Latin had.
Conjugation was the act of parsing out verbs for pronouns. But it also meant a group of verbs to which this same method was used:
Those words using - o, - as, - at, - amus, - atis, - ant were for the first conjugation (group). The second conjugation had words that used different endings. There are at least five or six conjugations, and nouns also had groups and endings, called declensions.
All of these must be considered when trying to forge a document.
Personally, I think it's too much trouble to do for a fleeting moment of fame.
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The whole point of a vaccine is to challenge the immune system in order for the immune system to be ready to fight off any infections. Vaccines these days are more effective now than 50 years ago. And the tools these days like CRISPR and other DNA research machines make even more precise vaccines than ever before.
What's the difference between vaccines and illness parties? The parties spread the full strength virus while a vaccine has either heat-killed or live/attenuated (weakened) virus. A vaccine can give you symptoms similar to the illness, but it won't give you the actual illness.
While the vaccine causes symptoms because the immune system acts as it would against an actual virus attack, there is no actual replicating virus, only the little bit that gets eaten up by your ready immune system. With the full virus, it is multiplying and killing cells and spreading as fast as it can. Besides causing symptoms, the virus can cause secondary illnesses, like encephalitis that was mentioned in the newscast. Scarlet Fever can cause a heart murmur if untreated. Polio causes muscle weakness and an array of secondary illnesses, including paralysis. Upper respiratory infections are sometimes secondary infections, and Covid-19 attacks heart, lungs, brain, and other organs.
With illness parties, your immune system is not ready to take on the full virus: it takes about a week after the immune system is challenged by virus or vaccine to be ready for the virus. By the time that week has gone by, the virus gotten at a party could spread through the body.
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Measles, polio, and smallpox resurgences have proved that you cannot truly eradicate diseases. This is why we need vaccines and boosters. To prevent our ever contracting these diseases. I wish there could be a vaccine to prevent encephalitis, but that is caused by a number of illnesses.
It seemed to me in the 1970's (🇺🇸) that vaccines were just a thing along with getting Back-to-School supplies. I thought everybody got vaccinated. I lined up with all my grade school classmates in front of the school nurse where each of us—vaccine record card in hand—waited to each get our shot of the Vaccine Du Jour.
Mom talks about the time she was nervous about us 3 daughters catching polio until we got the polio vaccines.
My own dad had had polio, and it caused him many health problems throughout his life. More often than not I'd seen him take Keflex (4th gen cephalosporin) for upper respiratory infections. His lung capacity had been greatly reduced by polio, and URI's, though common, did him no favors.
And when I attended college in the mid '80's, I think, the news said polio was eradicated. I knew that was the wrong thing to say. And I think that might have started an era of eschewing vaccines, because the diseases vaccinated against had not appeared for a couple of generations. So come the 2000, there were hints that polio was coming back in other countries, but it had been eradicated here—as if country borders could stop the spread of disease.
Then 20 years later comes Covid-19, and ignorance took over again. We got a vaccine so fast it whipped our hair as it flew by, and people were so slow on the uptake I wanted to shake them all!
It was hard for me to feel empathy for people who had fears about taking the shot. This was a vaccine so innovative it was created by a DNA coding machine! How much more precise could you get! It was a vaccine brought to the people faster than for any pandemic.
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If technology is a product of a limited source code, say, of a price scanner in a grocery store, then everything should work consistently and perfectly. Yet it doesn't. You could argue it's not maintained right, but even if it is maintained right, and even if the customer scans everything right, there are times when the scanner doesn't work.
And the upper shelf for grocery holding doesn't work. And the carousel, which is built to recognize the weight of the groceries, doesn't recognize small packages like Kool-aid. Or even heavier groceries.
These events happen randomly in a way that users cannot predict, something the users don't associate with AI.
and no matter how much an AI is created to be like a human being, it, in the end, is a difference machine. We humans have the ability to go beyond the logic of a collection of integrated circuits and logic imposed by software—the commands given to it to make those circuits work.
Truly, we each are more complex—more a black box than AI is.
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I do have an electric kettle that I got after my old, very useful Hotpot was stolen when I was on vacation.
According to your analyses and calculations, the plastic electric kettle was closest to the fancier electric kettle in boiling time. I'd wager the plastic electric kettle gives a much bigger bang for the buck, as I don't think the fancier electric kettle is less than 15 bucks, which I purchased my electric kettle for. Nope, it's not.
The fancy induction hot plate is also expensive. Half of 4 minutes isn't going to bother me. 4 minutes plus 2 will. You still have to make the tea.
It takes water time to boil even if you put it in your mug in the microwave for a minute and a half to 2 minutes. So you're still tapping your foot by the time it's finished. Then tea takes 3-10 minutes to steep (I prefer ten). So getting tea takes time. This is unlike a drip coffee pot when the coffee is ready when the drips finish. (Those smart people making Bunn coffee pots!)
Cheap and quick beats most of them, but one thing I can do with a cheap electric kettle I can't do with a microwave is set it up on my bed nightstand. It is near an outlet such that I only need a surge protector to connect it to the wall. A surge protector has a much thicker wire such that electricity through it has very little resistance so energy can all go to the kettle.
To me, energy efficiency, convenience, short boiling time, portability, automatic cutoff, and low price all behoove me to award my "Best appliance for the money" award to the plastic electric kettle. It's just one of those things the best since sliced bread!
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Art itself proves that the Earth is round, not flat, simply by perspective. It is commonly accepted now that perspective rightly represents real life, as depicted in the Mona Lisa. The city stretches out below her in the background, giving the illusion of depth.
There is a well - accepted principle of perspective called the Vanishing Point, the imaginary point in a perspective picture where all the lines — streets, buildings, sky, ground — converge. If you or anyone draws a picture, there is a hint of this in all of them. And sky is always up, and ground is always down. But how far down?
Pictures of ground and sky — even in the most rudimentary pictures by children who have developed the eye to draw a rudimentary house and people have their objects on the ground. The ground is at the bottom of the paper. In most classic still art, this is where the streets, ground, plants, and bottoms of buildings are.
Follow the point where all lines converge, though, including tops of buildings: the Vanishing Point is nowhere near where the artist put the ground. The Vanishing Point is somewhere in the middle or higher on the picture, where we are seeing infinity.
In a flat plane, infinity is still on that plane. If the Earth were flat, the whole perspective would show us looking up wherever we go, because the Vanishing Point is everywhere. Streets would not "meet" but be lines lines that "stand" like ladders in our perspective against "walls" that would be how we see the ground. Our own existence might not even be 3-D because of this. And if our existence were 2-D, then we would have an even greater difference in perspective.
We see, from our perspective, a limit to our perspective, and if you asked anybody where the ground was, no one would point upwards of 90° from their perpendicular stance (mountains and hills and trees notwithstanding). When you look out and see the horizon, an edge, "below" you, you are actually looking off into space along a line that connects to the Earth only at one point, the Vanishing Point. The only way this can happen is if the object it connects is not flat. Beyond that, infinity is in space. And wherever you go, you can still find this Vanishing Point in any direction you turn. Because you can do this anywhere and everywhere, the Earth cannot have any flat, angular faces. These would be perceived as a wall. And it would not be consistent worldwide.
Even in the Bayeux Tapestry which depicts Halley's comet in 1066, while people are depicted turned to the side with their heads practically facing forward, the ground is on the bottom of the tapestry and the comet is above them and the sky is above them. There is no wall that depicts the ground. Primitive as this art is, it still presents a vanishing point low to the ground.
I realize I've already turned off "Flat - Earthers" well before this point, but the point is that even as we depict the world around us, we have already —if unconsciously— proved the world is round, however we deny it.
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I predict that the word 'cool' in its current meaning like 'excellent,' 'kudos,' 'nifty,' and generally high praise meanings will stick around.
My own maiden name, Kidd, came from Dundee Scotland. Its origin is a nickname for Christopher (lover of Christ): Kit. Yet it has many spellings; Kidd, Kyd, Kydd, Kydde, Cyd, Cydde, and I think a few more. My name has survived since 1600 CE. I don't know if it will survive another 600 years, but it might.
Similarly, I think certain words that are specific to a concept will survive.
If I use your example of fringe groups' terms surviving, then instead of 'cool', it might end up 'kul,' or 'kuhl,' (like the surname of a friend of mine) 'kewl,' as a group of pop culture fans I hung out with said, with a variation being 'kyewl.' Or maybe 'cool' will stick around.
Surgeon is one of those words that were shortened: chirurgeon. This itself came from Middle English 'cirugian' and Anglo - French 'cirugien' according to Merriam Webster (merriam-webster.com). Still, the kernel remained: 'u,' though modified to 'ur,' and 'geon' pronounced like 'gian' unless g was pronounced as in modern 'golf' rather than 'gem.' Oh yeah, and the initial 's'; though that has changed from 'ch,' and it might continue to bounce around between 'ch,' 's,' 'sh,' and perhaps the German phoneme 'ch' as the gutteral sound like a person hocking in preparation to spit.
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Russian citizens don't care! To a person when interviewed, they say "I don't get into politics."
How can you have a revolution when people don't care? Most of the people who would change their country have already fled. Good for them; bad for Russia.
We, citizens of Western Countries and NATO, value our freedoms and will fight tooth and claw to preserve them, most importantly freedom of speech.
When you aren't allowed to speak against the regime without being summarily and inexorably hauled off to prison, one of things can happen:
1. Fight. Many protesters, even with nothing on their signs, were dragged off to jail.
2. Flee. This is what potential revolutionaries and smart people did when they saw the "hand writing on the wall."
This leaves the rest who do
3. Freeze. They stay in place; they mourn the conscription of their sons; they accept the edict of never badmouthing the regime under threat of jailing or worse. And they do what they can to protect their meager way of life. They are rewarded with the perception that their sons died when conscripted. They sometimes get money when told their sons are dead.
When told their sons are captured but alive and what to do to get them home, they are still afraid and are reluctant to even go to their son's commanding officers to put their sons on exchange lists to be swapped for Ukranian soldiers.
Imagine being deathly afraid to free a family member when all you have to do is show a video of your son and say he's alive! Could you? I wouldn't think anything of doing so! I would follow the chain of command to my Commander in Chief, my President. Governors, representatives, and senators would assist because that's who they are bound to: the will of the People.
Captured Russian soldiers who have a message to other potential conscripts tell them to flee and hide. How can you live when you must constantly look over your shoulder?
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The movie The China Syndrome came out around at this time, and it was really unfortunate. It only played on the fear people felt as we were told nothing.
That was also the beginning of the end of Pres. Carter's administration. It's too bad because he is a smart, kind man.
I wanted nuclear power to succeed. I was in 8th grade and all excited about it. Then the 3 Mile Island accident happened, and I was so disappointed. And I also got swept up in No Nukes, but my concern was Nuclear Weapons. And I was so relieved when Pres. Carter negotiated SALT I&II.
As for nuclear energy, I knew nuclear fission was only a stepping stone to nuclear fusion.
As little fissionable material it takes to make a whole lot of energy, this is still a limited resource. It is also hard to find, as clumps of it are scattered far and wide. A much bigger resource is hydrogen for fusion. Not just that there is more of it, but that fusion produces 4x more energy for the same mass of nuclear fission, and 4 million times for the same mass of fossil fuels.
The thing I think is quite alluring is that fusion produces no radioactive waste, and the products are helium and energy.
I'm glad to see that nuclear facilities have been changed because of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. And personally, I was glad to see that Fukushima opened up to the ocean to cool down their potential hot mess accident. Better that than a radioactive "elephant foot."
As we explore the asteroid belt and mine the rocks there—and also from mining comets— we will also find more deuterium and tritium. I think there's such on the moon, too. Another reason why we need to return to the moon and establish a base. That is, besides the moon being an excellent base for foundries of metals there, even abundant supplies of rare earth metals, IIRC.
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Louisville, KY is not anywhere close to having skyscrapers, but we have our downtown tall buildings. I lived in a building that received amazingly blazing sun from the Southeast in the morning that was not in the least mitigated except for a large Trane air conditioner in each apartment that could not have been energy efficient, and the sun shone directly on the A/C unit as well. My shades were always down as far as possible (would only cover half the window). If I could have, I would have shut out the entire sun it was so annoying, even in winter.
Truly, those windows needed to be covered up.
If it were up to me, I'd plaster that whole southeast side of the building with solar cells. Whether the rest of the building would provide light for solar cells or not, my side of the building needed drastic mitigation.
Were it totally covered in solar cells, 2 things would happen: most of the solar radiation would be captured.
1 The radiation would be used to produce electricity, and
2 the sunlight would get nowhere close to the building. Infrared would not heat the building, and ultraviolet would not be reduced to give off infrared, and this would reduce the electricity need of the building.
Electricity generated could be fed back into the building, and I'll bet that the building could pay its own electric bill for zero or low cost.
Do this for all tall buildings everywhere.
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Is that all there is? Can there be no more? No higher form of living?
Neo awoke to a combination of dystopia, computer simulation plug-ins—physically connecting themselves to the simulation—and creating their own tools by computer plug-ins that they've coded themselves.
Neo is, himself, a programmer. Would a writer be reached the same way?
Or would it be more like The Neverending Story? Where Bastian realizes that his life is mirrored by and connected to Atrayou?
Or Quaid in Recall who was a (de-) construction worker who was enticed by the promise of a more exotic life through memory manipulation and trinkets and souvenirs given to him after the implant? (I still think he ended up really discovering the outside world.)
No matter what, each of us is individual, and what appeals to one individual must needs differ from the next whether to create a simulation or allow a real life.
But I don't think that waking up to a real life means waking up to a dystopia. It might be waking up to a holodeck or holosuite: recreation environments created for enjoyment of one thing or another. And consciously experienced so that you San leave at any time.
If it is a military-style life outside, it might or might not be a desirable life. If it is a life in which all hunger and life insecurities are wiped away, that might be desirable. Or if you decide you want to learn how to play the Blues on your harmonica, reality drops you in the middle of nowhere, and you have to struggle to get to your goal.
Whether your goal is noble or personal, does it matter where you learn it?
Maybe you have to earn your way out of it. That's a bit of how I perceive my religion Eckankar, where karma and reincarnation play a big role. The Earth is considered a very coarse and rough life with many experiences given to learn the ultimate: that God is love and Soul exists because of God's love.
People often ask, "Is this all there is?" Maybe they feel like a big fish in a little pond and few grown past what is offered here.
Maybe the next level offers more or different experiences. Another layer peeled back. Another level offers more and another layer peerless back. With so many opportunities, could we truly say we've experienced it all? Did we ride all the rides at the amusement park? Is there anymore?
I think in some way both are true, breakout is possible, but This Earth has valid and legitimate experiences to learn from.
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Unfortunately, Disney's treatment of these cartoons is teetering over the edge of whitewashing. To act as if these didn't exist is like a child caught stealing a cookie and the child hiding the cookie behind their back.
It's done. It's released. It's been watched by many. Hiding it is pretending it never happened.
Yes, they are bad stereotypes. Yes they are products of their time. Precisely because they are products of their time they should not be banned. How do we learn from our past if our mistakes are not included?
On the other side of the coin is the culture of the time that was the best of that time. The Orangutan is singing the jazz at the time by the greats such as Satchmo. Black jazz is portrayed in many situations. It was invented by black people. To have it cut, to have it banned, is to deny black people their heritage and their dignity. And the black people who performed the music are steamrollered.
Yes, there were mistakes made. But don't assume that was all there was, there.
Uncle Remus put life I into what was, for a goodly part, a miserable existence. Whatever culture that was in, it was clear they didn't have much. That's what makes Song of the South so important: showing the Uncle Remuses at the time bolstering their people in hard times, teaching the children, and making fun of their owners and bosses. This whole movie was about the culture of slavery. You can't whitewash that out of existence.
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Another saber rattle about First and Second Amendment rights. 🙄
I am a bleeding heart liberal who believes in fair chances for all, and justice. I agree that there are real life needs for people to have guns. Protection from animals threatening ranchers and people and people who live off the lands in wilderness in Alaska where they have few W ways to share commerce with the Lower 48.
But no one needs repeater assault weapons, not even in wilderness conditions. If you shoot at an elk and miss, automatic assault rifles would tear up the animal and make it unusable for anything.
I don't like the Second Amendment, but I am not coming for your guns. What I want is responsible gun ownership including enforced cool-off periods and background checks.
And it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a background check every year. Everyone receiving government program money is examined every year to prevent financial fraud (always based on a model suggested by former President Ronald Reagan that never, ever happened and never will). I think it's not unreasonable to do background checks, and to hold gun owners responsible for any crime the gun was used in, which should enforce the owner to care for the guns' security.
The Second Amendment and all following amendments ultimately derive from the First Amendment.
A certain 45 has indeed successfully claimed First Amendment rights so many times! So yeah, the Justice Department is keenly aware of affording First Amendment rights.
(and a former president becoming president elect will not be 47th president because it's people that are counted, not terms. 4*47 = 188 years. That's 61 years unaccounted for.
Many presidents have had double terms. Grover Cleveland, up to this point, is only president who has served 2 terms but not consecutively. Nevertheless it is certainly possible and allowed. But even Grover Cleveland served as only one person. 13 other presidents served a second term; many didn't finish their second term.
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Thank you, Michael Popok, for breaking out all down for us. I needed to have hope that we can still keep this democratic republic with an eye toward preserving democracy worldwide. I still think we can help our government to do the right thing.
So until next inauguration, everyone keep those cards and letters coming to your representatives and senators, and tell them what you want them to do to continue to make the USA a more perfect union as in the preamble to the American Constitution.
TL;DR
At this time, our country is the best that it has ever been, I don't care what 45 says or said. This country has always progressed forward, if at different paces in different areas of society. Our can-do attitude, the way we greet one another on the street with a smile, the innovations we make, and the adjustments and accommodations we give are parts of the things people from other countries are jealous of! I see this in reaction videos.
We really are a great country! We've never lost it! We must keep going forward.
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Michael, I appreciate you. Thank you for testifying against Trump. I think the evidence will speak for itself, but your testimony —like you two said—puts an exclamation point on it. Puts a mic drop on it.
Once this trial is over—and I wish you safety, security, and peace of mind—would you be a fierce advocate for women's rights to her body, reproductivity, and all the tools of family planning that have been removed like IVF and birth control?
Procedures of an abortion are used after miscarriage to make sure all placental tissue is delivered, that it doesn't cause a fatal or mutilating illness. It's because bacteria pathogens grow well in this tissue: you don't want to give diseases any chance.
Everything you've said you endured, the catcalls, the fear of somebody bigger or a gang come after you, that you can't go out at night—all of what you said—is what many women deal with every day. Even as something as seemingly innocuous as "You'd look prettier if you smile" or "can't you take a joke?" It's all the same gaslighting and lording power over women.
Would you help us with your platform?
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Some arguments that Flat Earthers put out are so complicated in their unpacking I would say, "Okay, you need 12 years of public school science plus a college course of basic physics in order for me to explain it to you. Or to watch all 13 episodes of Carl Sagan's Cosmos: a Personal Journey.
One video showed about a spirit level not moving or changing on an airplane while in the air. How to explain that?
I thought it was because the plane was flying parallel to the ground and following the curvature. It is, but other things obfuscate the situation. Planes, with their complicated electronics, fly mostly on autopilot. The autopilot makes little changes in the airplane's attitude to compensate for accelerations due to curving flight paths. You never lean when the plane is turning because the electronics compensate for that and keep the acceleration forces pulling you to the floor of the plane. Yes, I got that from Neil Degrasse Tyson (smart man), but I have learned enough science and physics in K-12 and college to compare this information to the science experiments I did throughout that time, and I find it fits with the Standard Model of Physics.
Also, were I to suggest an experiment for a Flat Earther to do, it would require them to know geometry and algebra. I speak of Eratosthenes' observations of shadows of the well in Syene on June 21 at noon (13:00 Daylight Savings Time) compared to a well in Alexandria.
With smart technology of today and a trusted friend at both places, these observations of wells in Alexandria and Syene on June 21 could be made, since most people have trusted friends, and most people take it as an axiom that smart technology works. After all, GPS is consistent and gives verifiable results. People can and do prove that every day with their own senses. And thus, these days, Eratosthenes' ancient measurements can today be taken simultaneously.
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@renee3356
He puts out a blast campaign with a lot of money soon before elections.
He's also incumbent, and incumbents are hard to unseat.
Democrat - registered voters are more liberal in their thinking and take their I individual vote seriously. Republican - registered voters vote the Republican line exclusively, hook, line, and sinker.
Democrat voters have trouble getting voters out on election day despite carpool drivers, campaigning, and good weather. I don't know why.
But I will say that we had a very large voter turnout in the Democratic primary this yet because of absentee voting by mail, early voting at the Office of Elections, and one place to go for all the precincts in my country of Jefferson, and Louisville, KY.
Many criticized KY for only one polling place. But it is a very accessible place and very large: the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, where the State Fair is held each year. Many states are asking our Governor how they can make it work for them.
We had record-breaking turnout because of all these methods.
And now our president wants to slow down the post office. And so does Senator McConnell. Do you wonder why? Several states have absentee voting by mail as a matter of course. Like Ohio, e.g.
The more accessible voting is, the more likely minorities and women will vote. And the more likely we won't let Sen. McConnell get away with his shenanigans.
Our Governor Andy Beshear wants us to have this for the General Election. McConnell does not. See any parallels?
Do you wonder why precinct collections of ballots get lost from places where Black people and Hispanic people have their precincts? Four years ago many minority precincts were closed or moved at the last minute, forcing many minority folk to miss out on voting. Votes were lost from other minority precincts. There's been an insidious and systemic and systematic culling of votes by those in power to keep the Republicans in high office.
All I have is one vote. But I will vote it. And I hope to be able to again vote by mail.
Thanks for your support.
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My beef with common core is that some of the basics like multiplication tables aren't taught. The basic, unchanging foundations are not taught. I'm a biologist and want children to know what is inside their bodies and how the environment works with them in it, the creatures that are part of this world and how they work together and, like human beings, have a family tree that can be understood by the Evolutionary model, which continues to predict new and exciting things and creatures to find, based on our keys from the past: geology, fossils, and paleontology. And we keep finding stuff in the past, too!
Also, unless it's an alternative way to understand how arithmetical ciphering works (adding and subtraction on a number line), these children are taught to jump around the line like trying to golf at a tee and somehow ending up at the answer. It's crude, slow, confusing, and makes no sense. It doesn't teach place place values, and it doesn't teach you why it works.
When I grew up, what I was taught was what what most people I know use. This is what was called "New Math" in the 1950's, that which Tom Lehrer sung about. This is the place value understanding and borrowing from the next place value up. Numbers are stacked up, one on top of the other with place values aligned, and ciphered top to bottom with all arithmetic functions and kind of, in a way, with division.
This is like an accountant with a paper ledger. All numbers are processed this way, and that is why the lines are where they are. This also can teach significant figures, rounding (properly!), truncating, and decimal places.
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I was in a public school system, growing up, and in my freshman year of high school, I begged my dad for a lunchbox that was one of a kind; it had Gatchaman characters on it. It was my favorite cartoon at the time.
Dad said I would be teased to death because I carried a lunch box. Indeed, there was a tradition of being not nice to freshmen, with seniors taking them as gophers ,calling them peons, and making them do whatever the senior said. I said I didn't care, and it would save on paper bags, and I showed him the figures. He got it for me.
Never once did I get so much as a peep from anybody about it! It seemed to me afterward that people really liked the show and left me alone or, if they didn't, didn't think enough of it to attack me through insulting my choice of lunch carrier.
And carrying a lunchbox in high school was rather a risky thing.
One reason I felt alright about carrying a lunchbox was that my grandpa always carried a gray lunchbox to work and a thermos of coffee. If he did it, it has to be alright.
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There is much more that needs to be done besides pay people a UBI (which seems a good idea on the surface). First, there must be universal Healthcare coverage for everyone to get all the Healthcare one needs regardless of income. Second, there needs to be intensive, round the clock public transportation. Well - kept neighborhoods and streets with an eye to preserving vegetation. Third, there must be support for people taking jobs, such as travel to the place where the job is. Many times a job is offered so that a person cannot take it because they cannot afford to move in order to take the job.
As a person who makes $1000.00 per month through non-taxable Social Security, I pay for Medicare, and I would have to pay more for the insurance I need for dental and visual without Medicaid assistance. My insurance is around 10% of my income. I have my home through the Section 8 Homeowners Program, which requires me to pay about 30% of my income into housing and utilities to own a home whose mortgage payment cost around $750.00 per month. The utilities are my condo fee of $255.00 plus electric about $35.00 per month.
Understand that this is a 2-bedroom, 2-bath condo of 1000 square feet, not a 2-story, four bedroom house of 25 thousand square square feet.
I have had breast cancer and chemo and radiation plus ongoing treatment to prevent it coming back. I would have sundered and completely lost everything if I did not have the help of Medicaid and the support of breast cancer societies that provide materials that promote healing and recovery. And cancer is one of the biggest killers today.
Consider that a chemo treatment is $5,000.00 (x 12) and radiation is, I think, $3,000.00 (x 12), and that doesn't count doctor follow-ups, extra surgery for adding an intravenous port and correcting that port, and the breast cancer surgery, biopsies, ultrasounds, and mammogram necessary for initial treatment, easily in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Medicare and Medicaid paid for the majority of that. And I still have the small nest egg I was able to scrimp over the years through an IRA and a few savings bonds.
I rarely buy new clothes. I don't have cable or satellite. I pay a minimum for Internet and for my smart phone. I provide for me and one cat. I am able to get around by bus (I sold my car years ago), but even that is limited. Many times I have had to rely on rides from friends.
I can pay my bills and have groceries, including a few fun things like a X-mas ham that will last me the rest of this month or longer. I can get a few fun extras, too, like a book or a few discount movies, and occasionally an addition to, or replacement in, my electronic collection.
I do small repairs myself, like replacing toilet levers and flush mechanisms and front door backset, and even some PVC pipe plumbing behind the wall. I have to most times because a repair professional is prohibitive to my budget.
There is much more to a standard of living than you can throw money at, though if you want to throw some my way without denying my or others' benefits, I will happily and gratefully receive it.
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I beg to differ. OSHA regulations apply to everyone, and I've seen it in action,even at my grocery, but also in a hazardous materials plant I worked with.
The plant was built with architecture that meet the standards of practice required. Employees could only go where they were allowed according to OSHA.
Spills defined according to OSHA regulations were treated accordingly and documented, especially when they were life - threatening. Reports to OSHA post - cleanup were made documenting the details.
Meetings were held with employees that described the incident, what it involved, and what the consequences were and that a report was filed with OSHA.
That was a teaching tool as much as a requirement by OSHA. It gave us information and a local example of how such accidents happen, how to clear the area, and how to clean it up and who should do this. And how toxic it is. And what fines might be otherwise.
So, yes, there are agencies who have laws associated with them that they enforce closely with companies and private practices.
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Red meat is no more expensive than chicken. I prefer getting pork from the meat case. Look for manager's specials that can save you up to 50‰ off the price. Around X-mas time, hams go on sale for 50% off and become cheaper, pound for pound, than hot dogs. I always get one, and this year I had the opportunity twice (December and February) to get a spiral - sliced jam, and I have chunk ham for beans still. Yum!
Eat red meat as you desire or not. Your reasons are your own. For instance, the logic that vegans use to justify their diet can be and are debunked. The health of a meat diet might be questionable, but humans get a lot of important elements of nutrition (whole proteins)efficiently from meat that cannot easily be extracted from a plant diet.
And I eat red meat for mental health reasons, too. Someday somebody might research why, but as a bipolar mental health consumer, I eat red meat at least on occasion because I can get anxious and squirrelly without it. I don't know why, but I do.
Get a bone - in roast or shoulder or loin. They are cheaper than boneless, and they go on sale more often. If you like pork chops, don't buy them even in "family packs." Get a boneless pork loin and have the butcher cut them into butterfly pork chops of your desired thickness. Even boneless is cheaper than single or packages of pork chops.
I also wrap them in freezer paper to use them one at a time from the freezer. If I think I'll want one, I'll throw one in the fridge earlier in the a day.
Also get a bone-in shoulder. The butcher can't cut boneless steaks off it, but you can with a very sharp knife and safe technique. Bone-in shoulders are too big for my slow cooker, so I'll cut off boneless steaks and sometimes stir-fry chunks till the shoulder is small enough to get into my slow cooker. (about 3-4 lbs.)
For chicken, I will pay the extra price for a few things. For one, there is way too much fat BETWEEN the meat and it's gross! Two, I'll pay so I don't have to skin and bone them myself.
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Amazing story! What a tragic life she lived.
Interesting she should be discovered soon after a wealthy family became ill. And she became vilified and infamous. And no other carrier seemed to be as notorious as she was.
I see the hand of the wealthy in all this, that those with means would have Miss Mallon stopped and shamed and persecuted and jailed and isolated by means of power, authority, or sheer wealth they wielded.
And it would have truly been a much different story if she had, say, met with Florence Nightingale who had insisted that Civil War doctors--
wearing aprons as bloodied as a butcher's-- wash their hands between each patient. This along with personal toilet hygiene would have gone far to protect her employers and anyone else.
Now we know that keeping cooked and raw meats separate and contaminated surfaces disinfected as well as using gloves protectors restaurant patrons from all manner of disease- causing entities.
However, I have seen many more than one food handler wipe their nose with a gloved hand and then use that gloved hand on food b creating possible instances of transferring rhinoviruses to patrons.
But most contamination comes from not washing hands before handling foods normally eaten raw, leading to outbreaks of E. coli , recalls of tons of fresh vegetables, and mostly diarrhea in those ininfected. Not since E. coli O157 has there been reported such a wicked outbreak of a deadly form of E. coli . Yet the fear lingers on.
All it takes is one person mishandling this food to pass on this contamination. This might be from some workers not being allowed to handle their elimination needs except in the fields where they work.
I'm looking at you, Big Ag!
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What the hell is a "counter-judgement?!"
I'm a lay person and I'm pretty sure there's no such animal!
I've never heard such gobbledygook in my life!
If Trump decided to put up a bond to appeal and he can manage it, he might as well pay off the judgement.
Nobody's asking him to pay the judgement right away. I would say that he would be making payments pretty much like a loan. I can't see any judge stripping him of all his means. He has to eat.
Oh, yeah. He never paid anyone anything. He doesn't know thing one about budgeting and making monthly payments.
Coming from a family of money, shouldn't he have been taught money management?
I admit I have a mom who was an accountant. But I was taught by my dad (not an accountant) to balance a checkbook, prioritize items, and define needs vs. wants. Mom taught me amortization calculations and a number of other things.
If I heard correctly, somebody, somewhere, mentioned something about giving Trump an allowance of 50K USD a month? That would allow him to eat himself sick with all the McDonald's burgers he wanted.
If that is actually his monthly payment of the judgement, seems fair to him and more.
Donald, I hope you like sleeping on very hard surfaces. Because that's what the bed you made is like.
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Every Soldier, Sailor, Airman (and Woman), Coast Guard, and Marine join the US military voluntarily, and each has an undying love for protecting our USA.
Yes, war is Hell. Yes, it destroys countries. But when a tyrant will not back down from trying to capture other countries (and won't stop at the invaded countries' borders), the ensuing war must be fought. For dignity, sovereignty, culture,, and ratified freedoms.
Putin is disorganized with poor communications, poor weaponry, and poor tactics. Ukraine is fighting an incredibly conservative war. Zelinskyy has, many times, pulled out of areas to protect his military and citizens, including the Azov extremists.
Yes, Pres. Zelinskyy has information technologically from US and also weapons, but he is even conservative with his Lend-lease acquisitions. I think Zelinskyy is a helluva president and is determined to save his people and their culture.
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As I got older, and I felt I wasn't getting answers from Methodism, I checked out other religions and different Christian sects. What I got as the main tenets were "Love God, and love your neighbor as yourself." and I felt these religions were good for people to follow. (I was still looking.)
As I looked, I realized my basic beliefs were strong. Others feared questioning their religion. For example: my Mom in Sunday school asked if Steven (who was preaching Jesus' word fervently and was crucified for it) had kept his mouth shut, he would have lived longer?
This made sense to me as a teen, but Mom said in her class her fellows gasped and acted like the Bible never should be questioned.
But that's silly. If you look up the story, you can see Mom's point of view might be sensible, but on the other hand Stephen was so moved by Jesus' word that he felt he could not help himself.
But you have to consider such questions if you want to know where spiritual truth lies. This is why there are so many religious treatises and apologia. And Jewish texts are full of commentary and interpretation.
If you look behind the texts and rituals and find your religion doesn't break down, it can still give you something. If it is found wanting, it's time to move on to a religion that will minister to your spiritual needs.
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So, let me get this straight: those called "snowflakes" are the current generation born around 2000-2010?
This who use Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and other social platforms to express their offended sensibilities?
Maybe I'm looking through 1980's-colored rose glasses, but everything old is new again.
People are discovering The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and the Rolling Stones again.
Information generated to the 2000's is easily available through the Internet.
Through the Internet people organized the "Pussy Hat" March and the Science March.
Through the Internet people learn university courses from Harvard, Yale, MIT, and highly visible professionals.
And the "Snowflake" Generation is getting this information faster than any generation before, in more detail than was ever known before.
The "Snowflake" Generation is doing movies, recording music, and publishing books and media and finding opportunities through the Internet that was never possible before the 1990's. We have the Go-Pro and quad copter drones cheap so anyone can have them. We have crowd funding to help back great ideas better than Walt Disney could ever dig up in backers because trillions of people have worldwide access to the Internet.
And the so - called "Snowflakes" — like the generations before them who have identified shortcomings in our society —are calling them out to deal with them. Even as Equal Rights Amendment proponents wanted women and men to be awarded the same as men for the same work at the turn of the 1980's; even as the LGBTQ+ community came out to stop the spread of then - lethal AIDS by grassroots campaigns in the 1980's; even as the Civil Rights Movement saw the beginnings of dealing with inequities and hidden oppression brought into the open in the 1960's; and the creativity of each of these even - decade periods pushing three edge of "decency" of the times, these "Snowflakes are gearing up with their knowledge of the times, the stagnated dogma, and ideals to strive for for a better world for all of us.
Compassion. Quality. Diversity. Environment. Global community.
These are what I see people who are called "Snowflakes" are doing.
To follow the logic of the label you put on them, remember that enough snowflakes gathered up can make an avalanche crashing down with nothing to stop it. Grassroots movements are powerful forces.
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, people were desperate for their lives! As we should have been! We needed answers, and we looked towards our president for help and answers! We weren't enamored of Trump. Trump held the highest office and had the responsibility of helping preserve the US people. That's why we looked to him. We were desperate for answers and help.
People tried stupid stuff like taking fish tank hydroxychloroquin and got dangerously sick. We were desperate for help, but when we looked to our leader, he told us wacky stuff he saw on the Internet!
Then when he himself fell sick and went through treatment (monoclonal antibodies), he said everyone should get what he got, with no word about availability, distribution, or effectiveness in any one situation but his own.
We looked to him as a leader, and he thought we wanted an actor. We looked to the office, and he abdicated and ran away.
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This was a very painful one to me. But instead of "literally," I've taken to saying "truly" instead.
I take offense at the word "bling." (even my Autocorrect doesn't like it.) I am sad people don't remember that "glitz" means the same thing.
I also take offense at "could care less." no explanation needed. But it does remind me of a time when a lady mentioned she was "two sheets to the wind" and I laughed saying, "so you were not completely drunk?" (It's "three sheets to the wind" to those interested.)
Unfortunately those are on their way to being skunked completely.
I'm also sad the words I, like you, have been using had been previously skunked, and I'm using the skunked version. (Nooooo!)
But if I don't use the words that are skunked, then there'll be no words left to use!
Maybe I go overboard on this, but if I've written a word that I know has been skunked, I'll use the "right" way, and then I'll follow it up with a sentence that clarifies my meaning, I hope in natural conversation without being pedantic, making word vomit, or info dumping.
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You might not even need men for society to carry on. There are plenty of Animal Kingdom examples where females become male and can take over fertilization requirements.
Biology lesson incoming:
Know in utero that the same tissue that creates ovaries in genetic female embryos makes testicles in genetic male embryos.
There is such a thing called sex ratio, the relationship between population of males and females that adjusts in different environments. If more males, the ratio is greater than one. If more females, then sex ratio is less than one.
This is an observable fact in any species population:
If the niche—the environment a species can thrive in—is large, the species will spend more energy to birth more males. If the niche is small and narrow, the species will invest in more females. In the first instance, the species can flourish and has the freedom to diversify. In the second, the species must conserve its extra energy, and it births more females.
If the male in a harem of any one of several species of fish dies, the females fight, and the dominant one turns male.
Every cell in a human being has a full complement of DNA. There is no reason that a female can't become a functioning male.
Impossible? Look at how some birds do it. Many birds don't have a penis. They put together their holes called cloacas (cloh-AKE-uh). Cloacas accommodate elimination of all body fluids.
It's less sure, but think about how many pigeons are out there. It is a successful species survival technique. So is the laying of eggs in water with sperm from the male as a cloud in water settling on the eggs. Frogs are plentiful.
There is what is referred to as junk DNA in our genome. We don't know what it does, although we've traced it back to existing microbe species.
DNA and physical traits are never removed from a species unless, and only unless, retaining them would cause us to not survive. Everything we have has been necessary at one time or another for us to survive as Homo sapiens sapiens. Some of that DNA could have been necessary at one time or another when we as a species had no males.
Men and women both have male and female hormones. In order to make these hormones, the "female" hormone progesterone must be present, for all sex hormones are made from it. Testosterone and other androgens included.
There are plenty of mechanisms for any species to change to ensure species survival. They are so successful that they have appeared over and over in different species at different times throughout the fossil record. Wings, for example. Or crab species.
And know this: the Y chromosome is not necessary to create male physical characteristics. There are few things it does.
Suffice to say that species find ways to survive even when severely limiting events happen.
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I have an old, non - digital, CRT (tube) TV with RCA plugs. I am too cheap to get cable (there's nothing on, there). I use it for my DVD collection, a conservatively built collection I watch more than once. No need for Blu - Ray or aerial.
I have a desktop, a laptop, and a phone, with a wireless router so I can keep from using all my phone data while at home. My tablet broke beyond reasonable cost to restore it (I did once and it broke with the same problem), so I don't use one. But my laptop does what my tablet did and everything a laptop can do, so I'm covered and I won't get another tablet.
But I need a laptop, of all of my electronics, as well as my scanner and printer.
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I'm not sure there are 10's of 1,000's of executive positions in the Whitehouse. But I'm sure Trump would reduce the executive officers to less than 50.
TL:DR
Are you including the Postmaster General and the managers of the Census Bureau, FDA, USDA, EPA, EEOC, and other departments?
The post office and Census are required by the Constitution, but you know Trump intends to rewrite the Constitution as well.
Oh yeah. He'll gut the Social Security department and seize the assets. I'm sure he's been working on all of these, and he would implement them on day one, should he, Heaven forbid! regain the Whitehouse again!
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Russian people not only aren't for Russian forces to conquer Ukraine, they aren't for Ukraine being triumphant, either.
Every Russian asked what their political opinion is have—to a man; to a woman—insisted they don't get into politics.
Whether interviewed on the streets of Moscow or talked to by Ukranian journalist Volodimir Zolkin—soldier POW and family alike—deny the invasion was Russia's fault. And they say Putin is right. They leave their basic human rights at Putin's feet and take their chances.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure there is no American who fails to stress the importance of the Constitution's Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments in Annerican life. Some point to the First Amendment as the signal principle of the Constitution. Others defend vehemently the Second Amendment, which touches on the ownership of weapons.
Russians don't defend their country. Americans do. And so do Ukranians. Both understand the importance of expressing freedoms—even as many other countries do—in order to preserve them. We all participate in politics because that is the responsibility that goes along with freedom.
Russians, who have never participate in politics, abdicate this responsibility and prefer to leave Human Rights to a megalomaniac who stomps all over them.
The people of the largest country in the world refuse to put themselves, their words, actions, and lives on the line to attain their birthright!
This is the craziest mindset I have ever seen! Yet it is as true as it is tragic.
This war needs to be fought to reestablish NATO-accepted Ukranian borders. But also it needs to be fought to wake the Russian people up to the responsibility they have to fight for their own rights. They need to see the importance of participating in their government they elected and got, and they must require the stewards of these high offices to use them to edify and grow their people.
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It boils down to whether the opposing council can meet their burden with a workable case. Trump has horrible representation so that he might as well do it himself, though he knows that's even stupider.
It's the same as if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about.
How about all your passwords? Diary? Business secrets and proprietary information? Other people's sensitive information if you work for, say, an airline or the County Clerk drivers licensing office?
These days, a driver's Real ID requires about five different kinds of personal information including birth certificate and social security card, proof of name change if you've married or divorced, and a few others. Do you want others to have it? How about a hoard of gold you bought legitimately?
Do you want a stranger to know any safe words you have with other people? No. So we all have things we don't want others to have or see. And so we have a 4th Amendment right to be secure in our person, papers, and effects.
This is the same kind of argument. In a way, the American Judicial System is like a basketball or football game. One side has the ball and must do something with it. When your turn is up and the ball has switched sides or turned over, the other side must do something. If their team is better than yours or they are just good enough and take advantage of your mistakes, then they win the game, no matter how good your team is otherwise. Each new filing is a new game.
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Media pundits suck. People are hurting in this country, Republicans and Democrats alike. Being a liberal Democrat, I want to see people get what they need, no matter the party, skin color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, or housing status. Or car or phone status. Because some people live out of their cars, and having a permanent phone number is the only way many can communicate with their community. Many don't have computers, and the 2 hours a day they can get at the library is often not enough.
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Another way to save money is to check out places that take donated home furnishings and resell them. One great one in the U.S. is Habitat ReStore, selling furniture, hardware, chandeliers, electronics, kitchen counters, doors, flooring, and much more. The proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity, an organization to help people build their own homes or help build other people's homes, to pay a part of their home with work, which is called "sweat equity." This program was started by former president Jimmy Carter after he left office. He said that with his connections, he could do more for people outside of the presidency than he ever could within his presidency.
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MMR is a combination of measles, mumps, and German Measles vaccines. German measles is the R, for Rubella, its other name. But this combo vaccine is what's given now, what this newscast said was very effective.
I got my first measles vaccine in the 1970's as a child. In the 1980's a mailing had reached me saying people having gotten the measles vaccine needed a booster. So as an adult, I got the MMR. That has been the standard ever since.
Please talk to your doctor about how effective the MMR is and tell them your concerns. In this day and age, it's important to be a participant in our health team and make sure we get clear answers. Healthcare providers owe us clarity and full disclosure. If I don't understand something, I'll ask my provider again until I understand or ask another healthcare provider to explain it to me.
I also research online for answers, preferably journal articles, WHO, YouTubes by Board Certified doctors like Dr. Mike, Mama Dr. Jones, and others. I'll look at what the National Institute of Health (NIH) has to say. Then I'll talk to my doctor about what it says.
Do get your questions answers if you are fearful.
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So the State wants the defendants to suffer as part of their penalty? Fine. That's reasonable.
And both sides say the judge must abide by the law. That's fine, too. There are 3 penalties under the law: hang by the neck until dead. Serve a 14-year sentence. Or life imprisonment with no parole, no chance of release. Fine.
What could possible be suffering if hanged? Momentary or maybe a longer period of suffering decided by whether the defendants' necks snap or they die of suffocation. N.B. A person hanging and suffocating to death would go unconscious before death due to the starvation of the brain of blood supply.
After the defendants die, there is no more chance whatsoever of rehabilitation or restitution. And no death has ever served as a "lesson" of consequence to force or even encourage compliance with the law. Remember these two defendants felt themselves above the law. It would be useless as a societal lesson.
These are my arguments against death penalty. Also my personal abhorrence to killing in cold blood, which the death penalty is. I couldn't pull the gallows lever, throw the electric chair switch, or administer the lethal injection. I defy anyone who cares about mercy and justice to be able to do this without themselves hurting.
Both sides agree on removing the defendants from society.
Death penalty undermines suffering and produces Momentary satisfaction and expression of passionate anger. It doesn't make them suffer as much as the state and probably the plaintiffs want.
What would? Leaving them alive.
If the judge chose a 14 year sentence, that would give these young defendants a very long time to experience a life in which NO ONE is above the law. 14 years is a long time to be taken down a peg or 2. It is possible —even for these cold - blooded, immoral murderers —to learn society's lessons. And it is possible they could return to society. I've seen at least one person in what I feel is a comparable position.
If a permanent separation is taken, this does not preclude rehabilitation and learning. It just separates them from society permanently.
And if my taxes pay for jailing, a cot, and three squares a day for the rest of their natural lives, to me it is tax money well spent.
I vote for life sentence with no parole.
Also, more and more restorative justice is being served which seems to help victims heal, and it forces perpetrators to face what others have suffered from their crimes. Community service also is part of it.
Even if they do not return to society, the defendants can still do community service.
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Flatworms are very dependent parasites, too. They are very simple in their cellular structure, evolved for eating and reproducing. And eating is just absorbing nutrients from the host gut in which they've found a home. The cells, lined up behind the head, create the eggs that mature as they are shoved down the line. Like viruses, they can be dormant till they meet a host and get settled in.
Still, they are eukaryotic, multicellular organisms, just not nearly as complicated as even their distant cousins, the nematodes, or their distant Sophisticated cousins, the Annelids (earthworms).
Could ancient (and even recent viruses have been responsible for the so - called "junk" DNA in our systems?
Could they even be responsible for such things as convergent evolution? Flippers and fins for swimming, e.g., or skin stretched over modified fingers on a bat that gives bats flight like birds, or flaps of skin stretched to each of a sugar glider's sides between all its limbs to move around in treetops?
Convergent evolution is a cool tool, but there is still a lot of hand-waving concerning it.
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NOT NATURALIZED (that is, being a foreign national who lived in US and took the test and renounced allegiance to other countries and swore an oath to US)
But A CITIZEN BORN IN THE UNITED STATES.
For example, Arnold Schwarzenegger— though a citizen of the US and able to be governor — can never be president because he wasn't born here. Neither can Jim Carrey from Canada. Dan Akyroyd from Canada. Anthony Hopkins, UK; Liam Neeson, UK; Leslie Nielson, Canada; Kim Cattral, UK & Canada;, Diane Kruger, Germany; Angela Lansbury, UK.
All of these are foreign-born. All are naturalized citizens. Not one of them is eligible to run for president.
I, on the other hand, born in the state of California in 1964, am quite eligible to run for American President if I wanted. I am not naturalized; I was BORN HERE in the USA!
Get your terms straight!
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Not dying will put a lot of pressure on the Human species and the environment around them. If we don't die, then we as a species will strip the world of even the resources to regenerate the food and materials to sustain us. Our species would change to even subvert long life: things like cannibalism when no other food is available abs using human bones to create structures to live in.
So, humans live forever, then all the Earth's resources are consumed and their regeneration capability extinguished. Nothing left but cannibalism. Read Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," and one way is to eat the offspring because women can have them once right after the other and singularly suckle many of them. Then the ability to keep a species alive is depleted due to depletion of mothers because they die of thee wasting away of the mothers' own nutrition and the non - replacement of mothers because girls are sacrificed for eating.
Do it the other way and eat the old, and you have defeated the goal of living forever. However, eating the old in this case would also remove the pressure on the environment, and then Nature in infinite variety will provide new life to cling tenaciously to the small niche opened up to it.
Then Nature, being a clever Gaea, will have some new scourge that makes its way into human beings that will shorten their lifespan, once again creating a balance between living and dying, between being flush with resources and being impoverished, between predators and prey, and so on.
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Integrals and derivatives describe many factors in a situation. The first time I saw this was in connection with physical chemistry.
I hadn't had the Calculus of partial differentials, but my understanding was enough to see that they described different interrelated and interacting vectors: pressure, temperature, and particle or mass content.
PV =nRT has 4 dimensions; four variables to determine in a given small volume (vicinity, really) in which other factors can be ignored. (gravity, e.g.)
Now that it has been shown that gravity waves exist and they affect matter, it can be yet another vector to be considered.
In architecture, much can be done by treating a design as a series of cantilevers and points of rotation, but a skyscraper requires consideration of weather factors, forces of buffeting winds, earth movements, differential heating from the sun, and support inside and outside the building. The dynamics of water pressure. The air movement in the building, and electric components all affect the design one way or another. Each has its partial differential with respect to all the others.
Fluid dynamics is concerned with flow —how fast fluid moves through a channel —and flux —the cross section of that flow through the channel. But it is also concerned with other dynamics like eddies and waves. These are affected by channel size, but also the gradient of that channel: what cross - section of channel do you need to minimize or maximize the presence of fluid anomalies.
So Calculus can be thought of as a series of related factors that need to be solved with respect to one another. This goes beyond finding the gradient of a 3-D graph hill (which you can do with a pencil: place it where it doesn't roll off).
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Cigarettes and tobacco products are expensive out the roof!
When I order Club Soda at a restaurant, I don't get any strange looks from the wait staff, from friends, or even onlookers. They don't care. Why should you? (beyond taste)
Check out Meetup.com. There are groups that meet for different things. There might be something appealing to you that doesn't cost an arm and a leg: gaming groups, "stitch and bitch" needlecraft groups, hiking groups, and so on.
Learn how to make that smoothie, sushi, avocado on toast, or get a bag of that specialty coffee or tea or chocolate. Create a happy place for yourself, whether you share it with friends or enjoy it with your furbaby.
There are ways you can economically treat yourself.
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I went to a convention once, but when I prepared my clothes, I found I had dropped 2 sizes and truly had nothing to wear! I had to wait till the next day and I anxiously waited for the doors to open. I fairly ran to the proper department, and I told the lady at the department, "I have a hundred dollars; dress me for a weekend! She helped me find coordinate pants (2 pair) and blouses (3). She also showed me how I could rock a smaller size than I thought I had to purchase, and the set was sweet not only for that convention but also for Sunday service, and even everyday looks and work. As long as I fit it, I looked great in it for many situations, including my friend's wedding.
As for weddings, they don't need to be soirees. My friend, a riverlorian for the Belle of Louisville Steamboat, got his license to marry people. That would be a sweet an inexpensive cruise to get married on a boat!
You can get married outside the courthouse. In my hometown, there is a beautiful square outside the courthouse where I have seen several happy couples married by the Justice of the Peace. They were wearing a beautiful dress of the season (one lady in peach and frills!) and a suit. Both outfits can be used in many occasions!
Wedding gifts don't need to be big! I remember a punchbowl gift I knew was about $10.00 (because I sold them at K-mart), but it was just as gracious and loving a gift as those who bought me more expensive gifts. And shower gifts don't need to be big; practical. Utensils, towels, pots and pans, all can be gotten at discount places; some at dollar stores. Baby items? Look at the Dollar Tree first as well. Baby shower cards? Forget them. For the price you pay for them, you can get a children's book. Then you can write your message inside that. The book is a much better card than any card. Better yet: I've seen Dr. Seuss books in baby - style board books. For some $5.00 I think! How appropriate!
Don't spend $80.00 on materials to make a wreath for X-Mas because Martha Stewart told you to! Get apps for coupons for the craft stores and get your materials for half-off retail. The wreath she described could be made for $30.00 or less by a shrewd crafter.
Don't pay for pine cones. Gather them. Stuff like that.
There are also times when online beats the store and vice versa. Always check. And always do your own math. Sometimes the shelf labels are wrong. And anybody who does their own math when comparison shopping is doing algebra whether they know it or not. They're just not using any symbols.
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Education is very important in reining in runaway conspiracy belief. And yet, even age-appropriate education misses a lot of technology in our world that children need to know about in their environment.
For instance, one of the experiments I've seen posted was to take a spirit level on board a plane with you and watch what happens when you take off.
The person in the video placed its ends from port to starboard. When they did, on takeoff the level didn't change.
I thought they should have pointed it from nose to tail.
The level would be affected this way on takeoff and landing.
What he should have used was a circular level and placed it flat on a level surface to begin with. Any force on the plane would be detected by a circular level.
However, the video was crafted very carefully, too. I suspect it was done to try to convince people of a flat Earth.
TL;DR
He might see, though, that his circular level stays steady throughout his flight. Why? He would figure it was because it was over a flat Earth.
However, there is technology in the autopilot in passenger planes that keeps the plane in an attitude where people feel forces inside the plane as if on the ground.
Could this be done on a plane traveling on a flat Earth? Yes. Is there a difference? Yes.
When you fly on a globe, you are traveling parallel to the Earth below wherever you go. Gravity works the same on the plane as in Earth. When you look out the plane window, the ground you see below is as if you looked out of a second story window from a house firmly on the Earth. (Just a bit higher.)
Would it be the same If you flew above a flat Earth? No. To fly on a flat Earth, you are flying in a circle anywhere you go. If you go East to West, the force on the plane goes in the starboard direction and would be greater than Earth's gravity. To compensate, the plane would have to tilt 90° with the bottom of the plane pointing due south. The ground outside the window would appear like a wall on the starboard side of the plane, and the port window would be pointed to the sky.
You don't see that. You can even show this with swinging a bucket on a rope slowly versus fast.
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My little sister was in the Army National Guard, and when she graduated she came home with a few MREs and fixed me one.
It was corned beef. And she cooked it with the heater that it came with: a chemical reaction heater that kind of worked like a hand warmer but much hotter. It also smelled like Sulfur, but it didn't affect the corned beef hash. The corned beef hash was excellent!
There was also fruit cocktail that was freeze-dried. It had the consistency of styrofoam. She said to eat it dry, because if you water it down like it should be, it is gross. There was also another package that contained matches, coffee, sugar, tea, and toilet paper. And there were also a plastic spoon, fork, and knife. I wouldn't want to live on it, but I guess for a bivouac it would be all right.
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