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With the sophistication of today's AI an AI would scan not just our emails but your entire work and financial history and social media. China has been dong it for a while. In China the govt can go from facial recognition of somebody on the street to a political reliability profile...

Science is a murky catch all contextual word. In our modern cultural paradigm science pursues new things without regard for consequences. Separating the pursuit of science as without morality and saying consequences are from what people do with scientific knowledge is a from of apologetics as...

Back in the 90s a woman ended on a watch list for no apparent reason. It turned out the FBI was scanning emails looking for keywords. In an email she said her kid had bombed in a school play and the word bombed put her on a list. I think the program was called Dragon. Foreign adversaries...

Hey, for all we know the forum is front for the CIA...be afraid, be very very afraid...HeeHeee.

I heard Gould speak here in Seattle in the 90s. There is no ethics or morality inherent in science, and if we apply morality to science it is science that produces nuclear weapons and weapons being used in Gaza. The translator of the Koran I read dating around 1930 wrote science and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tornado_events_by_year A trend upwards. From reporting global warming is affecting the jet stream. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley

The song god hears when he thinks about us non believers. 'I hear you knockin' but you can;t come in' Yahweh is obviously a projection of the patriarchal male of an enchant wandering nomadic camel jockeys. No different than the Greek gods being manifestations of human attributes.

Some engineering trivia, vibration and resonance. Back in the 80s I ran a vibration test on a camera mounted in a gimbal for mounting on an aircraft. The gimbal was hogged out of a solid aluminum black and you could not deform it with a sledge hammer. The table moved maybe 1/8 of an inch. When...

Beep Beep Beep Yes commissioner Gordon, this is Batman. Batman, the Tswizzler is back in Gotham City, and he is up to his old tricks. We'll be right there commissioner. Robbin, to the bat poles. What next? What we are seeing right now. Dramatic reporting of natural disasters with dramatic...

If you have not seen it, Tacoma's Galloping Gertie bridge failure. Mechanical resonance. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=tCOMA+GALLOPING+GETRIE#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:373ed461,vid:j-zczJXSxnw,st:0

The forum is a place to work on and improve skills. An education depending on how you use it.

The mother of all derails, for sure. However Lion's assertion that since most 19th century Christians did not own slaves they were not pro slavery has been soundly refuted.

A new breakfast for me. Microwave a small potato, 3 1/2 minutes. Warm up frozen green peas in the microwave, 1 minute. Scramble eggs with ham. Mix and add a little sesame dressing.

You are falling feet first into a black hole. Doesn't your heart have to pump blood against the gravity even if you are in free fall?

Colloquially free will and free choice are synonymous. I do not not think it is possible to make a choice that is completely without influence or coercion in some form. Markeibg and advertising and pop culture in general get embedded in the subconscious. Choices to a degree are Pavlovian.. We...

If there was an attempt to end slavery at the framing of the constitution there would have been no consensus for a federal government. As it was COTUS as we have it was the second attempt at a government. https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i/clauses/761

I agree that the war was in the end was about states' rights vs federal government. Slavery was not addressed in the constitution because it wound not get support.

Actually up till now over here we have only seen the Israeli side painting themselves as innocent victims. We see it in the pathetic Israeli TV propaganda. Old allegedly staving Israeli women, requests for donations for bomb shelters. Now we see the Palestrina side. They have been dealing with...

Netanyahu et al are hiding behind antisemitism to cover their asses and justify what amounts to genocide. We can see now from reports it is certainly not all Israelis. There have been anti war Jewish protests over here.

The proposed legislation. I grew u hearing 'Jews killed Christ'. https://catholicreview.org/fact-check-house-bill-cracking-down-on-antisemitism-does-not-restrict-biblical-teaching/ Were on an increasingly steep slippery slope.