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    Stereotypes

    Jumping over from a philosophy thread and exchanges with Politesse.. On culture I am on the right. Progressives have an unrealistic addenda that glosses over issues in subcultures, except of course whites. Politesse This is a topic fpr social science. When you recognize all groups have...
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    Utopianism

    My grandmother a devout Catholic would say people want heaven on Earth, but they are not going to get it. Progressives seem to think they will achieve it witjh social engineering and enacting an ideology. Russian and Chinese communism tried to do t by madatingan equality and eliminating...
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    Marxism

    Make your case here No Robots. Your view in part is that global Marxism is inevitable. Hardly a rant on Marxism. Objective observations that Marxism failed on a large scale in Russia and China. Observation trumps debate. Note in the USA there are open communist organizations. There always has...
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    Collecivism

    Jumping over from the derail on a religion thread. Collective ownership can work on a small scale. The two major large scale Russian and Chinese experiments in Marxist collectivism/common ownership of means of production failed. The Farm was successful. Theer were a nuber of communes...
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    AI Issues

    Any AI is a machine created by humans to do tasks. However well it mimics humans it s a machine no more alive than a sewing machine. Kids are socializing to AI as if it were a real person, sometimes with bad consequences. In a recent case a kid committed suicide based on an AI response. An...
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    Natural Philosphy

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_philosophy
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    The Sun Is Waking Up

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/solar-activity-increasing-after-decades-low-nasa/
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    Electronics

    Something other than the usual stuff. Diodes, holes and electrons https://wiki.analog.com/university/courses/electronics/text/chapter-5 Modeling the bipolar transistor The Ebers-Moll equations for a transistor...
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    Philosophy Of Science

    I did not agree with all of it, but I ffound Popper useful. https://mercaba.org/SANLUIS/Filosofia/autores/Contempor%C3%A1nea/Popper/Objective%20knowledge.pdf file:///C:/Users/srank/Downloads/KARLPOPPER.pdf https://www.amazon.com/Objective-Knowledge-Karl-R-Popper/dp/B002ITJCKA
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    Religious Views On Science

    Issues with science versus region are mostly with Evangelical conservative republicans who have political influence.
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    Optics - Electromagnets

    Bringing it over from a philosophy thread. I used geometric optics which treats light like rays, common knowledge. But that is an approximation. Geometric optics. https://physics.info/reflection/summary.shtml Physical optics solves Maxwell;s Equations. Not practical without computers. CED...
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    Musk; Plans For Mars

    Musk on camera says he wants to move millions to Mars. In our culture some people are called crazy. A wealthy crazy guy is called eccentric. Another Messiah Complex...
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    Military Technology

    The technological arms race began with the earliest civilizations. I recently watched a show on the evolution of chariot technology and tactics. It focused on major battles between Egypt and Assyria. Layered body armor that could withstand an arrow goes far back in history. Ancient Chinese...
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    Madman in the White House

    Nazism was covered in a political science class. That we have a madman in the WH goes without saying. Like Trump Hitler was expert at pushing deep cultural buttons. The Nazi propaganda film Triumph Of The Will was kept classified until the 70s, I saw it when it made the rounds of college...
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    Online Puzzles

    MYT puzzles are popular. The crossword puzzel is legendary. Wordle and the crossword puzzle. https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
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    Math Puzzle Collections

    https://math.dartmouth.edu/news-resources/electronic/puzzlebook/book/book.pdf https://www.pcsb.org/cms/lib/FL01903687/Centricity/Domain/4248/math%20puzzles.pdf 1958 Sci American puzzles https://bobson.ludost.net/copycrime/mgardner/gardner02.pdf
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    Origins Of Christianity

    Jumping over from a post by DBT. A wide subject of which I have only an overview. DBT: Not to mention Paul's plagiarism of Greek philosophy. Aquinas was another major influence on Christianity. Read a book The Dumb Ox. The Golden Rule in various forms predates Christianity in most or all...
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    Spirit

    Jumping over from religion with a response to pood. What dies spirit mean? May the Force be with you ..... Obi -Wan and Yoda are watching you from a higher plane. Spirit like much of philosophy and mystical traditions are contextual. Indian traditions have pranja or life force/energy. At...
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    Hackers

    For a recent report. In the hacker community it is now commercialized. You can go online and pay for a bot of any kind in dollars per site or persons reached. Capitalism at its finest. Probably not breaking news, but I have not followed hackingother than general reporting. . On private...
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    Units Of Measure

    Greek and Eroman units of measure Greeks and Romans probably had their equiv ants of our NIST. Fraud in business and trade was undoubtedly an issue as it can be today. The needs for cionnerce and trade crteated a demnd for standards, and scienceis based on units of measure. Development of...
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