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Davis replied to the topic This is not normal in the forum Small Talk 3 years ago

Without giving any spoilers for the movie Serenity and it’s prologue TV show Firefly, anything can be said to “work”. It all depends on the purpose.

I see. So suddenly…you are a relativist? Yeah it was pretty clear, it works if avoiding pointless deaths is more important to you than the illusion of absolute rights. I guess I simply wasn’…[Read more]
Strega replied to the topic Sunday School July 2nd 2023. in the forum Sunday School 3 years ago

Thanks, Reg!
Davis replied to the topic This is not normal in the forum Small Talk 3 years ago

It is hard Enco to figure out what your take is on this.

Could you explain, precisely, how anything happening in Tennessee at the time, remotely compared to what Facists and Nazis were doing? I ask because, it is utterly vile to compare the utter horror of true restrictions on freedoms, genocide, mass murder, unthinkable oppression with something…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 3 years ago

Another off-stager:
PopeBeanie started the topic Short Videos (e.g. like TikTok) in the forum Random Posts 3 years ago

What happens when a space suit’s air pressure drops to zero? As one who went to commercial dive school and was once a certified scuba instructor, this breathable oxygen and air pressure is interesting to me, and I never would have guessed the outcome of the test shown in the video below.

As an aside, the first astronaut and cosmonaut deaths were…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic It's not Russia, it's Putin in the forum Politics 3 years ago

Oh no, not this topic again? Yeah, you betchya.

I really like the following interview about Putin’s historical motivation to go to war, largely because it’s not two or more guys trying to trash other media, commentators, or griping about the establishment (although sometimes it’s worthwhile), or about stirring up conspiracy theories or starting…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic How welfare destroyed the black family and neighborhood in the forum Politics 3 years ago

RichRaelian wrote:
Hello! I’am sorry but I disagree with the title of this post.

TheEncogitationer wrote:
I’m not sure who said it, but: “The human mind is a wonderful thing. It can think anything it wants to think.”

I don’t like the title, either. IMO the “the” in it strongly implies “every”, which of course is hyperbolic and unreali…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic end of agnostic.com? in the forum Small Talk 3 years ago

Unseen wrote:
fuzzy logic has nothing to say about religious belief. It’s intended to handle partial truths

I knew that and also thought maybe you were joking, and Reg too. So I poked a little after wondering if the “partial truth” here was in what people say when they state what they believe. It makes total sense for me for some atheists and a…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic end of agnostic.com? in the forum Small Talk 3 years ago

I believe in fuzzy logic, among other forms of reasoning. While I’m not a proponent of it, or agnostic about it.
Davis replied to the topic This is not normal in the forum Small Talk 3 years ago

Gun control (limiting guns to those who are mentally stable, trained, inspected, who have safety measures in place and a good reason to have each different kind of weapon) is effective…works. It simply works. Easily avoided gun accidents and fatalities are lower. Virtually every civilised Western country has gun control to various levels, and…[Read more]
PopeBeanie posted an update 3 years ago

I’m very big into personal Air Quality, including detection and prevention of breathing unhealthy air, and cleaning it up quickly in my apartment. Two meters near me that measure total volatile organic compounds (TVOC) beeped when both meter’s TVOC measurements went off the scale. That’s never happened before, and I didn’t know why at first. LOL,…[Read more]
- Simon Paynton replied 3 years ago
  How volatile? lol
  - PopeBeanie replied 3 years ago
    
    Indeed! Still happening… I think it’s from the sour cream. What’s also interesting (to me, a kind of medical geek) is CO2 skyrockets too. No surprise, of course, but I didn’t think of that until I saw the CO2 numbers. BTW I plan for this topic, including other air quality experiments and info wrt public health (e.g. because of all the…
    
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  - PopeBeanie replied 3 years ago
    If you’re asking “how high”, my TVOC scale maxes out at 10mg cubic meter, so the concentration was at least that high. And it happened again today, twice without me being conscious of it, like a surprise indicator “hey man, did you know you just did it again?”. Haha, Science!!
PopeBeanie replied to the topic end of agnostic.com? in the forum Small Talk 3 years ago

Unseen wrote:
[..] I am not grieving for them.

I haven’t heard of them either, but got interested. The security certificates for each site expired 27 days ago, according to my chromebook. The commonest reason for an expired certificate is that the website owner hasn’t paid to renew it. If it expired that long ago, I imagine the owner’s either…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Audio & Video Podcasts in the forum NEWS NEWS NEWS!! Current Events and Favorite News Sources 3 years ago

I just added a science-oriented source of news, a podcast, This Week in Virology. See the post above this announcement post.
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School June 25th 2023 in the forum Sunday School 3 years ago

As for the cold vs heat mortality debate, if I was really interested in it, I’d first just want to see more sources.

_Robert_ wrote:
Finding that ChatGPT is not so great. I ask for evidence of god and it gave me a ton of BS apologetics. Also gave me pretty bad excel BASIC code, but I was able to use some of it.

It’s using what it has scanned…[Read more]
Davis replied to the topic Sunday School June 25th 2023 in the forum Sunday School 3 years ago

Unseen it is absolutely exhausting reading your replies and inability to relent on any arguments, this discussion with Robert being yet one more of them. I’ve already started ignoring anything you say about COVID, Ukraine, LGTBQ+ issues but and conspiracies (and increasingly larger and larger amount of them as the weeks go by). I’m at the point…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School June 25th 2023 in the forum Sunday School 3 years ago

I don’t even remember who said what, but was considering how different seemingly credible sources could give different answers. And then how to find more evidence, or maybe ask the question differently.
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School June 25th 2023 in the forum Sunday School 3 years ago

Hmm, mortality due to cold vs heat is an interesting question. So I asked ChatGPT version 3.5, which failed to answer it clearly, and got a more detailed answer from version 4.0. I asked both “does cold kill more people than heat in USA, and (separate query) in the world?”.

Excerpt of version 4.0 answer:

As of my knowledge cutoff in September…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School June 25th 2023 in the forum Sunday School 3 years ago

On what was first, chicken or egg, this question is so similar to our preference for other black and white answers, e.g. (one of my favorites) masks work vs masks don’t work, where the actual answer lies on a scale in between, or “it depends” on circumstances.

Evolution works on gradient scales, too, while creationists over-simplify reductionist…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic It's back!!! in the forum Science 3 years ago

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(TRUTH REVEALED: I get so frustrated recently, and careless, I need to censor myself.)
PopeBeanie replied to the topic This is not normal in the forum Small Talk 3 years ago

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Unlike Hoplophobic gun control freaks, I trust in Belle Rose’s intellect and agency to find ways to apply “Avoid, Deny, and Defend” to the context of her own life. Everyone’s context is different and I won’t presume to comment on things I don’t know.

Even not having clicked on one of many videos and other links poste…[Read more]
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