Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
An interesting opinion piece on ethics and moral identity.

That’s a brilliant article that I agree with.  The author is saying that in order to get people to behave ethically, you have to teach them about ethics in general, or in other words, remind them of what they might already have known.  In any given s…[Read more]

Reg:

Inflaming Anti-Muslim bigotry is the GOP’s desperate distraction strategy from MAGA failures.

Forget it, Reg; It’s Tater-Town (‘Cuz, ya know, his name is Tommy Tuberville. Sounds like a friend of The Toy Formerly Known As Mr. Potatohead.)

On a more serious note, even though Islam is making some sinister in-roads into U.S. Society, we a…[Read more]

Reg:

An interesting opinion piece on ethics and moral identity.

Problem is, The New York Times is so concerned about it’s paywall while shilling for Mamdani and not wanting anyone else to make money. Kinda undermines any talk of ethics and morality, especially the Reciprocity Ethic.

An interesting opinion piece on ethics and moral identity.

Reg:

We could solve the charging-time problem by sending the fully charged battery backwards in time to before it was plugged in? No engineering deadlines required. Why is the patent office always closed when I go there?

Naturally, you’d have to time your going back in time to coincide with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) business hours.…[Read more]

We could solve the charging-time problem by sending the fully charged battery backwards in time to before it was plugged in? No engineering deadlines required. Why is the patent office always closed when I go there?

Reg:

The quantum batteries that upend the rules of charging.…..The important thing is that “bigger” means more coherently participating quantum units, not simply a physically larger battery. Adding more cells appears to reduce the charging time. But remember that nuclear fusion is still only 10 years away, since we began waiting for it 60 years…

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Jake:

Enco i never thought about the bicycle gender apartheid. I am not sure why. Usually i look junk up. Not this time. I may die never knowing why.

It’s not gender apartheid per se, since presumably it is mostly men who manufacture bicycles. It’s more lack of situational awareness by bicycle manufacturers and sales reps.

You may never ask…

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The quantum batteries that upend the rules of charging.…..The important thing is that “bigger” means more coherently participating quantum units, not simply a physically larger battery. Adding more cells appears to reduce the charging time. But remember that nuclear fusion is still only 10 years away, since we began waiting for it 60 years ago 🙂