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"You just have to write better papers." I have found that whenever I suggest to people that they need to communicate in such a way as to not allow what they wrote to be misinterpreted and therefore cause disagreement, they tend to get offended by the suggestion and they demand that they were quite clear with their abstract, run around the bush-ism linguistics. They also insist that any misunderstand lies on the shoulders of the one that misunderstood what they meant by their run around the bush-ism linguistics. All that college edumacation and they can't communicate better than Jethro Bodine.
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Technically, it's not the numbers that are admitting to anything, the person manipulating the numbers, is simply lying. Anyone can come up with a theory of this or that, this is not a problem. I read an individuals interpretation of a Bible passage and then decided to read the Bible passage. The only way to get his interpretation to work, is to completely rewrite the passage. He however, was quite confident that his interpretation of the passage was valid. Problems do not come with the abundance of theories and ideas. Problems come with the abundance of pride and egotism that cannot handle when the fact of reality hits the theorist in the head. If one is so stuck on the brilliance of one's theory that one cannot be wrong, odds are greater that the theory is wrong and one is simply too busy being right to prove oneself wrong.
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@Niyucuatro "yeah. Uplifting equality as a virtue was a mistake." The problem is not "uplifting equality". The problem is uplifting equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity and reward for success. Equality of opportunity allows the inexperienced 16 year old the opportunity to try bench press the 200 pound bar before having worked and built the muscle to achieve the goal. Equality of outcome demands that the 16 year old be assisted in lifting the 200 lb bar, without having to do the hard work of building muscle and strength so that he can actually lift it himself without assistance. In the end, he still can't lift the 200 pound bar.
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@MagMar-kv9ne I worked on an algorithm for 2 hours trying to get it to work, then I got thirsty so I decided to get a soda. As I walked down the hall, I realized that the reason I couldn't get the algorithm to work is because it could not work the way I was doing it. It's what I call an infinite loop. You get so focused on attempting to solve the problem the way your trying to solve it, you do not realize that you're simply doing it wrong. It can and does happen in every career field. Historically, there was always someone to question your point of view and was not concerned that they might hurt your feelings. Today, the fear of hurting someone's feelings, clouds many judgments and has corrupted the ethics of many.
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The judges order will have no effect on Trump's actions. The reason is that the Constitution does not give judges any authority in regards to the Presidents administrative authority over the government. In his ruling, the judge acted criminally and will eventually be impeached for his unlawful conduct and attempt to legislate policy from the bench.
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@lobabobloblaw The problem with abstraction is that people think they can communicate in the abstract, and demand that you interpret their abstraction exactly how they interpret their abstraction. Then they get offended when you infer something completely different than what they expect. When claims of truth are communicated in the abstract, it doesn't take very long for someone to look at what was said in the literal sense, and go about proving the communication to be completely false. Abstractions are fine when you are at the beginning of a concept. However, one cannot stay in the abstract if one wishes to find out whether the concept works or does not work, one must move away from the abstract concept into the literalty of the real world.
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@duncan.o-vic "If we'd move past capitalism, scientists would be free to pursue truth instead of money." Historically, societies that transitioned from capitalism to socialism, to full on totalitarian communism and marxism, do not allow their people to think, just do as they are told, which in the end, results in poverty and insufficient money to pay for scientific research.
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@davidj8569 "We have been sent down the wrong technical path for actual fusion and only an idiot can't see that. Robert W. Bussard also said this." Only an idiot calls people that do not have the knowledge of a technology to make the correct decision, an idiot. Either begin the process of educating those in government making the wrong decision, or elect people of integrity that are already educated in those areas; to those posts so that the correct decision will be made.
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You did do something with that printer. You didn't go bankrupt trying to sell a product that no one would buy.
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@sullenpuffin "The reductions on specific years you are talking about are minuscule compared to the overall trend of growth. Even a year that might have seen a few million metric tons less emission than the year before is still registering many billions of metric tons more than pre-industrial levels. Not that saying this to a denier is going to change anything." You're actually the denier. US Reduces carbon emissions. China increases carbon emissions. Your claim is that the reduction is minuscule and therefore the US did not reduce carbon emissions is denying the facts of reality. At this point, the US can not do anything to reduce the global carbon emissions because both China and India are increasing their emissions annually. Contrary to the delusional stand point of you environmentalists; America cannot save the world from carbon emissions. America being the foremost global superpower, does not make America the God in heaven that can do all things.
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@kwilliams2239 "Since I live in the US, I'm free to call a scam a scam. " I agree that Europe's defamation and liable laws are contrary to truth. It is not defamation to call a liar a liar. Doing so is merely speaking the truth and speaking the truth cannot subject one to a lawsuit. On the other hand, if one calls a liar, an honest upstanding trustworthy citizen, the one doing so is subject to defamation by virtue of the fact that calling a liar an upstanding trustworthy citizen, is in fact, bearing false witness against the liar. To allow oppressive defamation laws to exist as does in Europe, is to subject the people to endless frauds and scams. In the US, such a law would be deemed unconstitutional as no one has a right to defraud others, and to sue a person for speaking the truth, is forcing them to speak lies. This not only violates the free speech clause of the 1st Amendment, it violates the free exercise of religion clause in the 1st Amendment.
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Garbage in garbage out is not a rule that applies only to computers, it applies to humans as well and so; the IQ of an individual becomes irrelevant, when that individual is not taught how to be successful. It is possible that an individual with a higher IQ, will figure out how to succeed faster than one with a lower IQ, however there's no guarantee. A person with a higher IQ is more likely to be corrupted with pride and ego, and as a result, not be willing to learn from someone that is successful, because he or she perceives that individual as being less intelligent than his or herself. Whereas a person with a lower IQ, is very much aware of their intellectual limitations.
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@2023_GJ ""EV cars just are not ready yet" Millions of people driving around in them daily disagree, in spite of all the FUD. And "EV cars" is redundant. The V is for vehicle. English is hard." Sales are down. More so because people have decided they don't like the limitations of their EV. Hybrids have always been the correct transitional move to electric. You denying what the general public has come to experience, does not change the facts of the technology.
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"I failed to get two jobs I was otherwise well qualified for because I did not have a master's degree. I know this because I was just straight-up told, "We'd hire you but you don't have a master's, which is a requirement for the position."" My brother once got a job through a temp to hire firm. After working the job for six months, the employer decided to hire him. After filling out the employment application he was terminated. The employer has a High School Diploma or GED requirement for the job. Basically, the employer was caught in a lie. The employer claims that the job requires a High School Diploma or GED in order to do yet, through no fault of his own, my brother proved that an individual that did not graduate high school was very capable of doing the job. After all, they did start the hiring process. The issue arose because the Temp to hire firm, despite knowing that my brother did not have the necessary degree, put him in the position anyway.
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It's not hard to figure, they will be in complete agreement with one another. They will become partners in pushing for the reduction of energy consumption. Environmental activists have been demanding that we reduce our power consumption to save the planet for years. Now, we hear AI activists demand that we reduce our power consumption so that AI can use that power. AI activists want AI to become god and take over the world. Environmental activists want nature to be god, and take over the world. Either way, they both are worshiping a pagan god. Both environmentalists and AI activists reject the existence of a Creator God, and demand that people submit to their immoral world view.
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@chocolatewookiee "It's also pretty ironic because there's an ongoing affair in which dozens of politicians and officials from virtually every political party have bought their way to the master's degree via a scam uni. " That's interesting. Years ago when voicing a complaint about the lack of information in the list of required courses for a certificate, the dean informed me that I was not paying for the education. I was paying for the degree. So what's the difference. If you go to a scam uni, you get a degree per "real life experiences". If you go to a real uni, you get a degree per courses you are required to take, but are not necessary for the job you are seeking to obtain. Seems like it's a scam either way. But the degree that is based on "real life experiences", is more akin to what an employer is actually looking for.
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@frarema4147 "As I read it, it's for defamation and misinformation (misinformation is criminalized in Thailand's Computer Act) edit: just to clarify, it's because the Thai co-author thinks that the paper is correct, and so the criticism is wrong and so, misinformation." That was rather stupid on their part. By filing a defamation case, the paper itself comes under legal scrutiny. Whether they win or lose will determine how the Thai laws on defamation are written. If the plaintiff is required to prove his or her case, then all the defendant needs to do is call more witnesses to critically review the paper, than the plaintiff calls witness supporting the paper. Then, if Thai has laws against filing a frivolous suite, and the paper is shown to be nonsense in court, the plaintiff may end up being fined or charged with wasting the court's time on a frivolous law suite.
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That may have been company specific.
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I'm not a scientist and I can assure you that no matter how much chaos and destruction AI causes, it cannot destroy us all. It's time like the kingdom of the beast in Revelation, is limited and when it's time is up, it's game over. God wins, and the devil, the beast, and the AI loose.
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@TheJokerReturns "I want neither, as an AI activist. I want us to keep AI under control and God be praised," I don't see people that want to keep AI under control as AI activists. It does not fit the description of an activist. They would be more properly described as anti-AI activists. An environmental activist wants to shut energy consumption down to the detriment of humanity. An AI activist wants to put AI in charge of everything to the detriment of humanity. Despite knowing that their policies are actually more harmful than good, neither group is willing to acknowledge that their policies are harmful to humanity and habitually lie, and propagandize society into believing that their policies are good and helpful.
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@scchan2009 "No one wants it to be in their backyard." The attitude is worse than that when you take into consideration the history of the Pensacola Airport in Pensacola, Florida. The airport was built in a location that had no residential or business structure. Basically, out in the wilderness with nothing around. Over the years, companies moved in the area and people built homes in the area. Then, in the late 1980's or before, people started complaining about the noise of the Air traffic that was near their homes, homes which did not exist prior to the building of the airport.
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@traumflug "The competition is solar panels, wind turbines and battery cells. Each of which are almost trivial to produce now, and cheaper than anything else." When all the government subsidies that are used to make wind and solar cheaper end, the cost of those products will sky rocket.
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@duncan.o-vic "Integrity breaks under economic pressure." Whether integrity breaks or not, is not dependent upon the form of pressure, it is dependent on the character of the individual.
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"That's anti mater, not anti meta." 😂 Good joke. 😎👍
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@vap72a25 "It’s impossible to discuss with someone who doesn’t want to listen." It's downright fool hardy to attempt to discuss with someone, that refuses to let you speak without interruption. Some people will assume they know where you are going with a statement and respond to their delusion as if you actually said it without allowing you to say it. On top of that, if you attempt to correct their belief that you said something you didn't, they will consistently interrupt you and not allow you to express your actual point. A good analogy is going on a road trip. You turn right onto the main road. You're heading down to the second intersection to make another right turn, and the person you are conversing with not only acts as if you are going to the first intersection and making a left turn, they insist that you have already done so before you have reached the first intersection, and after you have passed the first intersection.
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That seems to be a continuing theme from activists. They always focus their message on the wrong thing and expect actions taken to follow their message, will make a difference. They want everyone to switch to electric everything without actually first, augmenting the electric grid so that it can support the higher electricity demands that the switch will cause. Then they want people to use less electricity so that it won't harm the grid. They do this all the while lying to the people, that electricity is a cleaner source of energy yet; 70+ % of electricity is still produced using carbon producing energy sources. What they are campaigning for, is technologically incapable of working at this time.
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Hind sight is always 20/20 provided you obtain valid information. The problem with anecdotal evidence is that when evidence is not permitted to be published, it remains anecdotal and not properly peer reviewed. The vilification of Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectine by big pharma and the mainstream news media in America was unjustified. Corrupt People In Government Service without valid medical experience, and in some cases without medical degrees, interfered in the patient doctor relationship and prevented experienced medical doctors from finding a proper treatment of COVID. As it turns out, both drugs have anti-inflammatory properties which is essential when dealing with viruses like COVID. The reason for this is that when a person is sick and inflammation is building up, the immune system works on resolving the inflammation first. Without the aid of an anti-inflammatory, the body can be overwhelmed with inflammation and the immune system does not have a chance to deal with the virus itself which in turn leads to the death of the patient. By treating the patient with an anti-inflammatory, the drug deals with excessive inflammation in the body which in turn allows the immune system to deal directly with the virus. In one research study I heard about, researchers found that patients with COVID that had been taking CBD, did not advance to severe stages of COVID. CBD is an anti-inflammatory without side affects. An individual in Africa had developed long COVID and then subsequently became infected with scabies. Scabies is a parasitic bug that burrows into the skin. It is quite itchy. The treatment for scabies is 12mg of Ivermectine. The patient states that the morning after taking the first dose of 12mg of Ivermectine, the symptoms of long COVID that said patient was experiencing had reduced. The patient informed the doctor of this who thought to prescribe 40 mg of Ivermectine but the patient asked for 20mg of Ivermectine because the 12mg was already very affective. Subsequent research found that Ivermectine clogs the receptacles of the COVID virus preventing it from entering the cell where it can reproduce. Thus, it was the best candidate for treating COVID, however, because of the vilification of Ivermectine by big pharma and the main stream news media, calling it a horse drug, doctors were prevented from trying Ivermectine as a treatment. In some cases, pharmacies refused to fill prescriptions of Ivermectine, and in so doing, ended up practicing medicine without a license and put the patient's life in danger. There are oncologists that are upset by the fact that the jab, interfered with their patient's cancer treatment and caused them to relapse.
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@hugomansavage "Some of the requirements for certain jobs should be revised." Yes they should. I was working at the GM proving grounds in the early 90's and talking to the about to retire head machinist, he had a simple understandable complaint. New hires with a college degree were being paid more money on hire, than he was currently earning. His biggest gripe? None of the new hires had the actual skill set necessary, or knew the first thing about doing the job, he had to train each and everyone one of them on how to use the tools necessary to do the job. They only had book learning and had zero actual skill.
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@BlakeBigfoot "hey if you hate education that's on you," I don't hate education. I do however, despise educated idiots that claim to be experts when in fact, they know less than people that never attended a College or University. "but it doesn't change that your perspective is ignorant and wrong. Degrees are not a "waste"" Money spent on education that is not used in any area of your life, is a waste of money. That's not ignorance speaking; that's wisdom speaking. " and there's a reason why the most successful companies ALL require them for MOST positions above associate level." If any degree, regardless of the field of expertise, is acceptable, the requirement for the degree is based on a lie.
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@aaronjennings8385 "Carrington-level event remains a high-impact, low-probability scenario." You always prepare for the high impact scenario, regardless of how low the probability is. You can always be certain this one thing. As soon as the egotist demands; "that will never happen"; the very fact that the egotist declares it so, is an indication that, that which is declare will never happen, is closer to happening, than one prefers to imagine. Preparations for emergencies are not made because emergencies happen on a daily basis, preparations for emergencies are made because one never knows when the emergency, will happen.
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"Societies that eat stars." Sabine; Marvel had a super villain that ate planets to survive. I think those researchers have been reading too many comic books.
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@WatchesTrainsAndRockets "She was a lot more lenient than a high school teacher that I had. He was done after the third mistake and you got a ZERO." Everyone needs teachers like your teacher in their education. They may be hard and annoying, but it does teach one the discipline of double checking to make sure one is accurate. The worst part of any research project is to think your done then; months later, find out there's an error in your data due to assuming that a commonly held and spoken statement by professionals and laity alike is correct, while being factually wrong, and that makes your conclusion wrong. What it does do however is prove, that telling a lie big enough and long enough, doesn't make it truth. It just means that people are not going to check to see if the false statement, is true. Then you get some crazy dude like Galileo that comes along and tells the whole world, they are wrong.
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@chrispjr "overcomplicating things" Overcomplicating? Claiming that sound is all in our brains is an outright lie. Our ears are sensors that are designed to detect sound. Sound is the fluctuation of air waves that upon entering our ears, is converted to electrical pulses and transfered to our brain by the little hairs in your ear. The true answer to; if a tree fell in the woods and no one was there to hear it, did it make a sound? is; Yes, the falling tree did make a sound. Every tree that falls makes a sound whether a human is nearby to hear it or not. This is a basic fact. To question whether a tree made a sound or not to teach students critical thinking skills is one thing, to ask the question as to imply that there is a remote possibility that the tree did not make a sound, is engaging in argumentative foolishness.
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@TreeTrunks-de5wn "would you still recomend majoring in physics? I love the topic and have a couple of possible career paths planned out but honestly idk if its smarter than just dealing w hating computer science or engineering and getting it done" If you love the topic, go ahead and major in physics. Just make sure you have a backup plan in case, like Sabine, you decide that career path is not suitable to your moral integrity.
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@SabineHossenfelder ""why would people trust this one service and not another"?" Trust must always be earned and never demanded as a right. If I trust a company, a group, or an individual, which, by their actions, proves to be neither trustworthy nor dependable, why would I continue to trust them? It is not only necessary for one to earn trust, one must continue to earn trust on a daily basis by being faithful to that which one is an advocate.
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@brothermine2292 Which is why one must write in a manner that leaves nothing up to interpretation. The only exception would be that there is a mystery in the work that you want the reader to try to solve.
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@bazoo513 "When you construct models, do you adjust and refine them to not match the observations?" That depends entirely on the integrity of those who constructed the model to begin with, and those who are doing any adjustments. If the model is constructed to show expectations rather than reality, then the model cannot be trusted because those involved with crafting or adjusting the the model have a ulterior motive for doing so. In most cases, the ulterior motive is money. The COVID lock downs, and the mandating of a drug that was alleged to be safe and effective, which turned out to be neither safe nor effective, is a prime example of such corruption.
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"There's no better coke". I'm surprised you missed this one Sabine. That statement is actually false. Coke that is made with cane sugar, is better than coke that is made with high fructose corn syrup and or synthetic sugars. They may taste close to the same, but they actually don't taste exactly the same. A lot of the additives that the US allows to be put in the American food chain like high fructose corn syrup and seed oils, are bad for one's health. So if you have the money to find a source of food without those additives, you can buy better food.
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@kerycktotebag8164 "It's not just greed, it's the profit motive, where if you're heading a corporation & choose to go against that motive, you're replaced by someone who truly believes this is the best we can do." There's a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things. Those that ignore profit and seek to make changes that do more harm than good, are rightly replaced. You can't have reality denying, insane people that want to destroy the company; running the company.
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"A philosophy teacher gets to the classroom, puts a chair over his table and asks the students to prove him the chair doesn't exist and that, who finishes can leave. So a student gets up, goes to him, gives him a paper and leaves. The paper contained the student's name and 2 words: what chair?" The student failed. Denying the existence of a chair by asking what chair, does not prove that the chair does not exist. In fact, one can easily defeat this claim of proof that the chair does not exist by picking up the chair and hitting the one asking the question over the head with it and saying; this chair. That would likely get you in trouble but you would easily win the debate as the individual could not deny that a chair just hit him in the head, and would likely be too shocked to come up with another smart aleck response. I would prefer to use a coconut cream pie though. Would it be messier? Yes, but more fun and no harm done the smart aleck that thinks he's highly intellectual. In addition, with a pie, one or more of them could eat the evidence of the pie's existence and forgo getting hit in the face with it, then question; What pie?
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I don't think those reports are written under the assumption that no one will read them. I'd say that those reports are written under the assumption that the people that do read them, don't know enough to know when they are being mislead with disinformation.
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@zeevtarantov "Places in the Middle East and India will be uninhabitable in 2050 outside of air conditioned buildings." What places?
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@TheSandkastenverbot "Come on, the news are full of articles about old people dying in India from the heat. If you think 1°C more isn't a big deal try living with a 38°C fever for weeks or months." The earth has cycles of both heating and cooling. The last mini ice age prevented people from growing food, add on top of that the wars that erupted due to short food supply, and millions died. All it takes is one major volcanic eruption for the temperature to drop. My Grandfather told me that he seen it snow in Michigan in June. Just because people are claiming that a tragedy is about to ensue, does not mean the one they are claiming that's coming is what will happen. Most of the deaths caused by COVID was due to the overlord controls that forbade doctors from doing the job that a doctor does during pandemics. Totalitarians imposing the bad policies and programs is more likely to do the harm they claim climate change will cause and it will be less of an actual problem of climate change. Stupid people passing laws that do exactly the opposite of what they claim the law will do, will always make things worse than what they otherwise would be.
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@venanziadorromatagni1641 "I honestly didn’t think that would need explaining." You were so naive in that thinking. Seriously, there are people that simply choose to be dumb. I have was in a discussion with an individual who demanded that I prove that God exists. In addition to dismissing every logical argument that suggests the existence of God, he kept attempting to divert the discussion to something completely irrelevant to the topic, so I asked the most pertinent question of all; "Exactly what do you consider proof that God exists?" It's been two days and I am still awaiting an answer to that question.
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@JamesYale1977 No, but it does taste good trying.
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@user255 "Oh yeah those logical arguments for the Flying Spaghetti Monster. So ignorant." If you're going to demand that people prove something to you, you better have an idea of what it is that you would consider proof. If you don't you are the one failing logic, not those asking for your definition of proof. All any believer needs to do to reinforce their faith in God is look at all the prophesies surrounding Israel that 1) have come to pass, and 2) are currently in the works of coming to pass.
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@Ichijoe2112 "Equality of Opportunity YES? Equality of Outcomes? HELL NO!" I agree with that. A person that does more work, or learns how to accomplish more with less work, should be compensated for doing so. Besides, if you're spending your time belly aching about the rich and trying to prevent them from getting richer, the only thing you will succeed in doing is prevent yourself from becoming rich. As long as there are people becoming wealthy, a poor person has the hope that one day, it will be them even if they have no idea on how to achieve that goal.
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"If you think your work will lead to human extinction, why are you working on it?" That question is easily answered. The dumbest people on the planet, are the ones that think themselves the most intelligent by virtue of their education; and then go about proving themselves to be the dumbest by intentionally doing extremely stupid things. Then they accuse all the reasonable people of being conspiracy theorists in an attempt to divert attention away from the evil conspiracy they are engaged in. The use of AI as a translation tool peaked my interest. Recently I seen a video that spoke of the progress of translating the Bible into all the languages on earth. Some 7000+ languages. The projected completion of the task 15 year ago had been 150 years. In 2013, someone got the bright idea of getting all the organizations focused on the task of translating the Bible into the various languages too combine their resources and work together. By doing so they reduced the time to complete the translation from 150 years to a projected completion of having the New Testament translated into every language by; 2033. What does that have to do with science? The end of the age is near. Matthew 24:3: And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world(age)? Matthew 24:14: And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. The end of one age marks the beginning of the next age. The next age is the Messianic kingdom age.
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If the projected sea level increase from climate change is valid; why do the rich advocates of climate change, keep buying ocean beech front property? When the richest advocates of a calamity act opposite of what they claim, it brings both their credibility and the credibility of the calamity into question.
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@Spiritualtiva "Only people who have achieved nothong in life constantly complain about people who have getting better jobs" is. The OP posted a valid problem. The OP had already achieved the skill levels necessary to do the job. The only thing the OP did not bother to achieve, is waste time and energy, paying homage to the great education god. The OP subsequently chose to attend a college and obtain said required degree. Only people lacking in credibility, having failed grade school reading comprehension, following a religious cult, puts forth ignorant, unfounded accusations such as you have posted here.
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