Steve Dustcircle

Thanks, Reg!!

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.” – Christopher Hitchens, born April 13th.

Love this quote, however as I advance towards my end with the realization that the median person is mentally and moral…[Read more]

“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.” – Christopher Hitchens, born April 13th.

The first sentence if my prior post was a run on disaster, so I thank you—especially Enco—for giving it the intended reading not the literal meaning opposite to my intention.

To wit:

Not many of the people who are asking for the normal rules of warfare to be adhered to by Israel in Gaza so as to stop what seems to be a genocidal campaign are not…[Read more]

Authoritarianism goes so well with the religious societies. A belief in a god or ‘superior’ entity and a belief in Dear Leader are really not all that far apart. If you’re already worshipping a god, it’s not a huge pivot to worshipping a leader.

@Reg

Not many of the people who are asking for the normal rules of warfare to be adhered to by Israel in Gaza so as to stop what seems to be a genocidal campaign are not pro-Hamas. They are not pro-rape or pro-torture. Don’t be absurd.

Israel has become a right-wing authoritarian country which keeps friendlier company with other authoritarian…[Read more]

With respect to the regime without any rights, I am hard pressed to see that as something different than that which the current administration aims for.

I have pretty much ditched all the MAGA supporters from my world. Feels good.

Unseen wrote:
Trump lies to see who’s loyal to him. Who’s in his cult.

L. Ron Hubbard, creator of Scientology was a science fiction author, who eventually made claims like he was a (nuclear?) physicist, Buddha in a past life, and he kept writing the most unbelievable origin stories and how people can nurture their superpowers, even learning to…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
instantaneous disentanglement could occur if a dimension exists where those two particles are actually very close to each other, or perhaps even still joined as one particle or wave.

In higher dimensions, that could happen.  That makes perfect sense in its way.  Distance is distance, in 1-dimensional units, no matter what d…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Or, more than one dimension.  All the dimensions maybe.

In string theory they speak of 10 or 11 dimensions (I forget which). I’ll never understand the theories, but the most convincing argument to me is about how entanglement of two particles can be broken instantly, even when those particles are separated by a distance that…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
If we go “above” our three-dimensional world, we go into the fourth dimension of time, from which we can see the 3-d landscape, embedded within spacetime, some way into the past and future.

Hang on, I’m not sure about that.  It’s “some way in space”, not the past and future.

To go “above” our world, it’s a 4-d world, so we…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
It is at best a faulty analogy and here’s what’s wrong with it. That example envisions a three-dimensional object, the ball, on a two-dimensional surface, which is easy to visualize. However, a real massive object exists in a three-dimensional space. Infinite number of planes. In the one-dimensional example, we see it sinking int…

[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
I.e. it’s more like a cosmological distance dimension is increasing.

I think that’s very true, @popebeanie.  Or, more than one dimension.  All the dimensions maybe.

Trump’s lies are not ordinary lies. He lies like Big Brother in 1984. “Don’t believe your lying eyes.” He does not lie to deceive. His lies are a loyalty test.

A guy I used to count as a friend (we were both photographers) is a MAGAhead now. He’s actually a successful attorney, so he’s no idiot. Still, he will not concede that Trump ever…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

TheEncogitationer wrote:
That is possible, although Religious and Crunchy people, both Left and Right, have messed up the word by calling perfectly natural things in the Natural Universe “unnatural”, e.g. “unnatural food” or “unnatural acts.”

If something happens or manages to exist or to be manufactured, it satisfies the laws of…

[Read more]