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@RationalMadman
I think you are more like Mace Windu, in my opinion.
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@Best.Korea
It makes me an experimental scientist.
Trying stuff that I have already done years before and has long since grown tired of it does not make you a scientist. But yeah, you are discovering stuff and obviously I should be glad for you.
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It is a sport if people are tired fighting for something. It is entertainment if people enjoy watching it.
NFL is both.
Or it is neither, because Football is a sport and NFL is an organization/entity.
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Argentina won.
I don't know what to feel knowing I haven't caught on until yesterday, but at least it is over.
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@TWS1405_2
Everyone can do this if they have nothing better to do. I imagine this is what ol' Bidden thought too.
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@Tradesecret
In the existence that exists, why did the non-life evolve to a life form?
Random mixing of chemicals. If you think the chances are low, keep in mind the Earth is 4.5B years old and the earliest organisms is 3.7B years ago, meaning that we had hundreds of millions of years of chemical mixing and colliding and forming new chemical substances.
Does this imply that non-life forms have the ability to be dissatisfied? Or the capacity to want to exist forever? Moreover, how did it come about? Was it intentional, under the guise of the survival of the fittest - although I am not sure how that works. Or was it an accident?
Although I am not an expert in animal biology and psychology, I am pretty sure that humans are one of the select few organisms to question the existence and purpose of themselves. That is why the Bible existed: Some smart guy back then just thought there was a god and created the Earth in 7 days, and that was the leading view in the extent they are in control of(Europeans cannot even access America back then). I don't think the earliest organisms even had the capacity to think, they just hung around, and the ones that didn't die mated as usual and the ones that died are unable to pass on their genes, resulting in a change in allele frequency and...yeah, basically survival of the fittest, natural selection, evolution.
It was a chain of accidents, but it ain't broke, so don't fix it.
Now admittedly, having a brain seems better than not having a brain. And the ability to move and communicate seems to be better than not being able to do the same, but they are both value statements.
Because of the environment. Given the human society now, it is obviously more fit for you to be, say, a woman, than a hen. Life have evolved so brains, legs, and lungs existed, because those with these traits have survived long enough for it to be dominant. And yes, having a big brain, being able to move and communicate, etc. is peak for the human-constructed environment we live in right now. This is also why sponges don't construct apartment buildings. They have lived in the water like that for millions of years and if it ain't broken, again, don't fix it.
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@BrotherD.Thomas
MISS TRADESECRET, whose gender went from a “MAN TO A WOMAN,” and then to “OTHER,” then went to her being 53 years old, then 12 years old, then changed to being 14 years old, Debate Runaway on Jesus' true MO, Bible denier of Jesus being God in the OT, the runaway to what division of Christianity she follows, the pseudo-christian that has committed the Unpardonable Sin, the number 1 Bible ignorant fool regarding the Noah's Ark narrative, SHE SAYS THAT OFFSPRING THAT CURSE THEIR PARENTS SHOULD BE KILLED, states there is FICTION within the scriptures, and is guilty of Revelation 22:18-19, 2 Timothy 4:3, and 1 Timothy 2:12. She obviously had ungodly Gender Reassignment Surgery, Satanic Bible Rewriter, she goes against Jesus in not helping the poor, teaches Christianity at Universities in a “blind leading the blind” scenario, and is a False Prophet, says that Jesus is rational when He commits abortions and makes His creation eat their children, and that Jesus is rational when He allows innocent babies to be smashed upon the rocks, will not debate me on the Trinity Doctrine or the Virgin Birth, has a myriad of EXCUSES not to answer your questions, and says that the Bible contradicts itself, she is a hypocrite, and wants to be called a "doctor" even though she says she isn't one, and she is "AN ADMITTED SEXUAL DEVIANT!!!!!”
Gotta say, this is the most elaborate ad hominem I have seen on the internet in text form.
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Because we have done experiments that under circumstances both physically and chemically, nucleotides and amino acids could form, bringing about the first RNA, then the first DNA, then the first prokaryote cell, then the first eukaryote cell, and everything just evolved until it became us.
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@Lemming
#601
Britain could have taken the world,But they slacked.
Because imperial expansion has already been outdated by 1900 as a lot of the land was owned by other capitalist powers like Britain instead of truly by the indigenous people.
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@sadolite
You asked for wishes and when they actually respond with their wishes you scorn them because it sounds oh a little bit "political".
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@RationalMadman
You are 3rd on the leaderboard with more debates than anyone else here. Who would underestimate you?
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@IwantRooseveltagain
If you think being hypocritical is enough for capsulating the essence of the republican party, then let me tell you that Elon Musk is not the most remarkably republican.
Though some republicans bootlick billionaires even if they cause pollutions. Elon musk has no need for that because he is a billonaire.
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@jaay
White house think tanks won't be able to solve homelessness. Places like this can, and will.
How? Some of the homeless aren't even able to afford phones in the first place.
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@sadolite
The eradication of Coronavirus worldwide.
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If you are going to let God determine what your country does, what changes is the religion in the hearts of people, not the people themselves.
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@sadolite
I think this is a logistic nightmare for strait people, because you would have to tow a boat to the middle of the strait every time two men want to marry. At least this is what it sounds like if you would like to make the ceremonial action any differentiated from normal marriage.
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What we define as a road, in the most common and inclusive and general way, is essentially clusters of paths taken by human individuals. At least it should be something like this, it should be dependent on how much people travel through this area. If a large number of persons travel along this line in this small given area, that is defined as a road.
For example, if I pave a 1km long 10m wide patch of concrete on an unknown grassfield with no inhabitants and I cross bars the perimeter of the entire paved section to prevent anyone from trespassing(my personal property, perhaps?), this paved section does not serve as a road. If the road is under construction and entrance is restricted or prohibited, it temporarily yet understandably loses its job as a road.
Essentially, we are just looking at relative clusters(peaks) of human movement statistically, using the X and Y axis geographically(and possibly the Z axis if you want to build a massive junction or an elevated highway). If throughout a 1-dimensional cross-section, the distribution of human movement is bimodal, we could for example conclude that two roads pass through this plane. We are comparing it relatively. In all seriousness, the average DC cemetery probably has more human movement than for example a continental highway in the midwest desert, however, the roads leading to the cemeteries would have more directed flow of activity than the cemetery itself, rendering the road a road and the cemetery not a road. The continental highways seldom visited still has activity, unlike the weak pasture beside it which both prohibits vehicular trespassing and is unattractive for most drivers throughout the length, so the continental highway should be classified as relatively the road. Why am I using the term "relatively"? I shouldn't. To determine whether a segment or section is a road or not, it should always be compared to its surroundings.
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@Lemming
2022-110= 1912"A republic was formally established on 1 January 1912 following the Xinhai Revolution, which itself began with the Wuchang uprising on 10 October 1911, successfully overthrowing the Qing dynasty and ending over two thousand years of imperial rule in China."Do you mean that?
Nope. I meant the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, quoted above.
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@Public-Choice
What confounds me is how people are more willing to burn down in a fire than try to escape the building and risk getting shot.
What? That is insane.
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@zedvictor4
You are correct.
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@RationalMadman
Idk, I am not trying to prove it wrong.
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@RationalMadman
Not if you redefine what earwax is. What I did was to connect a term with an object(or a type of objects) and thus the attributes of that object.
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@RationalMadman
Elon Musk really? Even when he sends unironically unfunny tweets perhaps every once an hour?
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The US advances while Germany is being eliminated. What a show.
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@RationalMadman
Which one, #6 or #7?
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@zedvictor4
Like that ever matters. The purpose of a country is to serve the citizens, not to brush them to serve as the tools of the state. The only policies that matter are that affects how I will live, for example, education funds.
Seeing as I have lived in the US for the most part of Trump's 4-year period, it really wasn't that bad. In fact, in the measure of serving the people, can't exactly say Biden or even Obama had done better in their years.
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We are almost at Jan 6 2023.... why do we still care?
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@zedvictor4
Earwax is annoying and it needs to be removed after an accumulation of large extent.
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@Best.Korea
Stupid is as stupid does.
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Nvm. I think he is doing it on purpose.
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@Sidewalker
OK, say it with me, central = good, extreme = bad, deep breath and again, central = good, extreme = bad...
But your centre may differ from our centre, so... are we trying to find the middle point taking account of everyone? Then that is populism.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Nazi stands for national socialism. Maybe Ye just likes authoritarianism.
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@sadolite
I am just opening up one interpretation, not making the topic itself political. If you actually think that your topic has that little control in your hand, maybe you can stop creating new threads.
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@K_Michael
sadolite: Have you ever seen that clown that hides from gay people?person 2: No, I haven'tsadolite: haha, must be because you're gay *dabs furiously*
To be fair, even if we take the figurative instead of literal meaning of "clown", then the description fits a heap of right-wing politicians.
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@sadolite
“That"
I am pretty sure there are more than one clown disturbed by LGBTQ pride parades, so using "that" would be less than accurate here.
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@RationalMadman
Let's disregard pure evolution here, if I am the creator and I made humans like this, it would be apparent that at the beginning, it was a pair, let's just call then Adam and Eve for convenience.
If I am the creator and I want humans to thrive in the most efficient way possible, why would I create 2 sexes? Why wouldn't I just introduce asexual reproduction? I think this argument disprove Christian creationism better. The fact there are 2 sexes at all suggest that the roots of human genders and sexes go way beyond before we were even people at all.
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@K_Michael
The penis is round. The vagina is a slit. The anus is round.Clearly the penis was made for anal penetration.
The barrel of the gun is longer, more rigid, and rounder than the average penis. Therefore, they are good substitutes to penises.
Unless you leave the trigger activated. In that case, it is more than a good substitute.
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@RationalMadman
XY... competes hardcore to get to reproduce with XX, serves to be disposable meatshield during war and at other times puts in the work hunting and gathering. Can't feel orgasm nearly as deep and well as XX can. Organ is blatantly designed for entry to XX's organ but the reverse is not at all the case, it was built around bearing a child and exit strategy.
Are you perhaps using this as an argument against the traditional creationism? Because according to the widely-accepted evolutionary theory, biological sexes are developed long before these animals are human in the first place.
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@TWS1405
We know you don't like it. It seems pretty funny to me at times.
You are the only one I have seen so far to actually complain. We can't ban someone based on some feeling held solely by one.
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@TWS1405
Then you serve ZERO purpose here and I VOTE that everyone here simply IGNORES you, since you clearly do not take this site (ie., topics under discussion) let alone any member/interloper here SERIOUSLY!
Contrary to what he exactly is, this site is NOT an authoritarian dystopia. Unless his words are so convincing that we are motivated to do something bad(or so bad that all of us are genuinely insulted), there is no need to ban him. If anything, he just adds entertainment value or general activity for the site. What he is doing "wrong" is that many of his words are so poorly-constructed that it may as well be better to leave a distance and see it as comedy.
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@oromagi
Others have also chosen to wave the Chinese flag and sing the national anthem - its lyrics espousing revolutionary ideals and urging the people to "rise up, rise up".It is a show of patriotism that could also be read as a pointed expression of solidarity with fellow Chinese suffering under the zero-Covid policy - and a call to action.
Exactly. This is the attitude held by most people in China as of this point that I know of.
The original idea has been cycled so many times that the original idea itself may have become lost at this point.
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@oromagi
The latest unrest follows a protest in the north-western city of Urumqi, where lockdown rules were blamed for hampering rescue efforts after a tower block fire in which 10 people died. China's authorities have denied those claims.
It was true, and it was due to the poor execution of the policy. We can't blame the policy itself except that it is prone to causing stuff like this.
The zero-Covid strategy is the last policy of its kind among the world's major economies, and is partly due to China's relatively low vaccination levels and an effort to protect elderly people.
Wrong. The zero-Covid policy is still enacted in(and even more strictly so) in crowded areas where vaccination was mandatory. The "low vaccination levels" is not directly a cause for why the policy is still around. It is just the government "cares about us" more than we do ourselves, and more than other countries care for their people.
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@Best.Korea
Most people will say that bullied children deserved to be bullied. That is a fine opinion, of course. I wont challenge that. Maybe bullying should be mandatory for all children?
I wouldn't say "How dare you" here. Let's just, emm, ...how about share among us what data got you saying this, or let alone what kind of social commonplace impressions made you say so, because I think it is bullshit.
If you can at least attempt to reason its rationality, then I will call it a day.
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some studies dare to say
Golly gosh, what decade are we in?
...2020s, yep. We live in an age where "dare" is used to describe existing scientific studies. What, do you think some studies aren't fit to be posted for being themselves independent of forging data?
If the studies are false, noticeably so, failing to reject the null hypothesis, then the "dare" should not be used in this way, but that the studies dared to fake data for their study in order to further propaganda or something.
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@Best.Korea
Actually, I would prefer to have more poverty if it meant stronger military.
Umm, I think you need to reconsider what a country is supposed to do for their citizens. The government is the server, not the ultimate receiver.
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Something I missed is, wow, the official accounts later lowered the clearance of that region to "low-risk" after the fire. The role of this action? To avoid responsibility. By changing the label of the region from high to low risk, they have dropped the burden on solely the ones operating the building and ones that lived in it, NOT the administrative personnel in the community, the district, or the city.
Essentially, what they are telling us is:
The path was clear, they blocked it themselves.
It wasn't wrong for anyone not knowing what happened, but justice delayed is justice denied, and a clear path delayed is a clear path denied.
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That is it. I have lost faith in the general mode of handling COVID in China. Maybe RNA tests once a day isn't enough. Maybe immediately restricting privileges(such as general shopping or drinking from a cafe) for having been in the same region as someone who was a positive individual(and said regions can be as big as, say, the entire upper east side) isn't enough, now we are doing this.
The fire—likely sparked by a discarded cigarette—started on the eighth floor of the Asch Building, 23–29 Washington Place, just east of Washington Square Park. That floor and the two floors above were occupied by the Triangle Waist Company, a manufacturer of women’s shirtwaists (blouses) that employed approximately 500 people. The flames, fed by copious cotton and paper waste, quickly spread upward to the top two floors of the building. Fire truck ladders were only able to reach six stories, and the building’s overloaded fire escape collapsed. Many workers, trapped by doors that had been locked to prevent theft, leapt from windows to their deaths.Though the owners of the factory were indicted later that month on charges of manslaughter, they were acquitted in December 1911; the owners ultimately profited from inflated insurance claims that they submitted after the tragedy. However, the uproar generated by the disaster led to the creation of the Factory Investigating Commission by the New York state legislature in June. Over the following year and a half, members of the commission visited factories, interviewed workers, and held public hearings. The commission’s findings ultimately led to the passage of more than 30 health and safety laws, including factory fire codes and child labour restrictions, and helped shape future labour laws across the country.
What happened was that in 1 building in Xinjiang, fire broke out in one of the higher levels. However, those that wanted to evacuate CANNOT find themselves exiting the building as the community the building was in was at the centre of one of said regions of high risks of infection, so the entire building was in internal lockdown. Residents inside cannot get out without approval and nobody can get in without approval.
At the time of the fire, nobody in charge of the community approved of exiting the building, as the region was still considered "high-risk" (The criteria of "high" risk would be like more than 1 Covid-infected indivduals were found there in the last 24 hour or something). The manager of the building told the residents to NOT take the elevator. Obviously, the fire trucks can't get there so quickly and immediately, so 10 people died, some burned to death, others jumped down from more than ten stories high as the stairs are either crowded or blocked, or both.
Isn't it crazy that after 110 years of progression, humanity has retreated to 110 years ago? No, no, I can't even give a source on it, because the moderation on verifiable websites would delete the videos and blogs on this matter, leaving that as a fact that even if I link anything here, by the time a second person posts, it is likely a dead domain by that point.
A woman was arrested for spreading exaggerated versions of this story, overestimating the number of people died from this fire. What is laughably funny is that after the event, all that worked at the community, the district, went out with their sleeves intact.
What is even more laughable, is that the second day(which is today) the news existed among the populace, another news headline was posted.
Number of COVID-positive individuals in Urumqi drops to zero
Urumqi is the city in which the disaster prescribed above took place. I cannot even begin to imagine what would come next for other cities(including mine) if they thought this was "efficient".
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@TheUnderdog
That's democracy for ya. People be straying left n' right doing crazy n' loony stuff, groaning after what they'd voted for goes mad; but when you take away their voting liberties, they go even madder. That's democracy.
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