Ok, let's grant that the whole of heavy industry is based on the consumer market (I guess it kinda is). But the retail end is broken down into millions of tiny pieces so that no one part can damage the whole. It is simply chopped off. A consumer boycott amounts to whack-a-mole. Hardly noticed in the belly of the monster. Sony gets a small piece of the entire economy. You are always giving them money if you consume anything at all. It's just like a tax, only somebody else is doing the paperwork.
More studies saying the same thing are redundant at best. Usually they're nothing more than a way of employing somebody's useless, drunken brother in law so the old lady will give it up. And hammering on people with boring facts does little to uproot their beliefs, sometimes just the opposite happens, as various (also redundant) studies have shown:-)
Then it is the "real" world that needs to adapt. The "real" world is insane and hysterical.
"So and so is a pedophile" Yeah? Prove it! Otherwise the accuser is the pedophile. That's the way I'd play it, with photoshopped pictures and everything. Let the shouting go on indefinitely. That's how you get them to keep their own mouths shut. In fact, there's a good idea. Everybody should accuse everybody else of being a pedophile, until people become jaded, and the word loses the power we have give. It's only being used for political purposes anyway.
The environment drives the genetics to adapt to whatever changes there might be, or die off. The environment is part of natural selection. You're still not making sense.
Evolution does scale. The process is understood and documented. You're babbling.
...but every few months we see research come out that challenges natural-selection evolution as we understand it as the sole explanation of our existence.
Well fine, if you want to include externally caused mutations (meteorites, fires, magnetic poles shifting), sure. There is that little thing called "chaos".
Dare I say it, we also need to have imposed limits on childbirth.
No we don't. In case you haven't noticed, the more stable prosperous countries have very low birth rates. People in shitty places have lots of kids, expecting only one or two to survive. That's how nature works. The key is security and abundance and education, etc, not legislation. Let nature do its thing.
That's why it is unwise to simply accept big subjects with many parts, like evolution, as true and inerrant.
WTF are you talking about?! Go back to high school biology class and see a demonstration of evolution in twenty petri dishes before your very eyes. Unless your wacko religion told you not to believe them either.
Just another victim of the love of money. This is the only direction politics can evolve into. Then there's a revolt, and the cycle starts again. Turtles all the way down
But I do not think it will allow people to live like kings. Well, not without forcing others to do things they don't want to do.
That's precisely what zero sum is. You're saying that for someone to gain, it must be at another's expense. The only people that would conceivably suffer would be those who feel inferior unless they're dominating over someone. The tech is waiting for us to discover and use. The only thing missing is the will.
Only saying things that cause measurable harm to others carries consequences.
My point is that saying things cannot cause measurable harm. Somebody has to respond. There are a myriad ways to respond to whatever is said. And the response is programmable. It can be changed. Cultural influences notwithstanding.
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Some of us are paid to do non-bullshit research.
And the good stuff is guarded behind a paywall, leaving us with this nauseatingly redundant political punditry at its worst.
Ok, let's grant that the whole of heavy industry is based on the consumer market (I guess it kinda is). But the retail end is broken down into millions of tiny pieces so that no one part can damage the whole. It is simply chopped off. A consumer boycott amounts to whack-a-mole. Hardly noticed in the belly of the monster. Sony gets a small piece of the entire economy. You are always giving them money if you consume anything at all. It's just like a tax, only somebody else is doing the paperwork.
That's an interesting picture of him. What's that thing coming out from his throat?
Well, it turns out I was only half right. Romania is moving up in the world
More studies saying the same thing are redundant at best. Usually they're nothing more than a way of employing somebody's useless, drunken brother in law so the old lady will give it up. And hammering on people with boring facts does little to uproot their beliefs, sometimes just the opposite happens, as various (also redundant) studies have shown :-)
The worst part is someone got paid for 3 years to study this.
Why disparage the successful con?
I kinda wonder what took so long.
Pretty bad match up in the article there. I wonder if they have the right guy
I hear in Romania they use a ouija board and crystal ball
In the real world, not so much..
Then it is the "real" world that needs to adapt. The "real" world is insane and hysterical.
"So and so is a pedophile" Yeah? Prove it! Otherwise the accuser is the pedophile. That's the way I'd play it, with photoshopped pictures and everything. Let the shouting go on indefinitely. That's how you get them to keep their own mouths shut. In fact, there's a good idea. Everybody should accuse everybody else of being a pedophile, until people become jaded, and the word loses the power we have give. It's only being used for political purposes anyway.
The environment drives the genetics to adapt to whatever changes there might be, or die off. The environment is part of natural selection. You're still not making sense.
Evolution does scale. The process is understood and documented. You're babbling.
Well fine, if you want to include externally caused mutations (meteorites, fires, magnetic poles shifting), sure. There is that little thing called "chaos".
I still suggest you take a refresher course
Dare I say it, we also need to have imposed limits on childbirth.
No we don't. In case you haven't noticed, the more stable prosperous countries have very low birth rates. People in shitty places have lots of kids, expecting only one or two to survive. That's how nature works. The key is security and abundance and education, etc, not legislation. Let nature do its thing.
That's why it is unwise to simply accept big subjects with many parts, like evolution, as true and inerrant.
WTF are you talking about?! Go back to high school biology class and see a demonstration of evolution in twenty petri dishes before your very eyes. Unless your wacko religion told you not to believe them either.
Just another victim of the love of money. This is the only direction politics can evolve into. Then there's a revolt, and the cycle starts again. Turtles all the way down
But Hitler was gay... I mean, just look at that get up...
We accept you here, no matter your orientation...
Oh that's right! Go after the Asians!
You suck!...
Kinda...
Eh, actually you're not so bad...
In fact you're kinda cute...
Wanna go out tomorrow night?...
Nervous?.. Yeah, a little
First time?... No, I've been nervous lots of times
...it certainly isn't working for drugs.
<Yes it is>. Crime does pay... very handsomely
And the main goal of the dealer is to get the buyer hooked.
And just what do you think the main goal of your entire economic system is?
She goes running to the shelter
of her mother's little helper
But I do not think it will allow people to live like kings. Well, not without forcing others to do things they don't want to do.
That's precisely what zero sum is. You're saying that for someone to gain, it must be at another's expense. The only people that would conceivably suffer would be those who feel inferior unless they're dominating over someone. The tech is waiting for us to discover and use. The only thing missing is the will.
2 things you never throw around lightly: Pedophile & Rape.
Cultural hysteria as a pretext to conduct witch hunts against "undesirables"
Leave the speaker alone. Kill the listeners...
Levelling 'paedophile' against a teacher is insanely damaging.
Only in an insane, hysterical society that encourages witch hunts. Blame your culture, not the words.
Only saying things that cause measurable harm to others carries consequences.
My point is that saying things cannot cause measurable harm. Somebody has to respond. There are a myriad ways to respond to whatever is said. And the response is programmable. It can be changed. Cultural influences notwithstanding.
that can ruin a reputation with mere hearsay.. Just another indication we're really not very advanced.
I hope that was a typo...
Maybe they can pipe some of that lava over to the UK