chemoelectric

chemoelectric, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

@GottaLaff It is a different case than the Republican primaries, though, where the ONLY thing Trump had to do was KEEP THE OTHERS OUT OF THE NEWS.

The media, of course, were entirely cooperative, but let us keep in mind their job is to advertise things that are for sale, and to do stuff like that. Covering politicians is the means to that end.

(Academic journalism critics will not say this. They have a sort of scam going that advances their careers but changes nothing.)

chemoelectric, 9 days ago

@GottaLaff Similarly, nearly the only thing Biden ever has to do with RFK is treat him as if he does not exist. And having his family treat him that way doesn't hurt, either.

chemoelectric, 12 days ago

Here's something about Judaism and forgiveness: there is no call for unconditional forgiveness, as some might be familiar with from their very non-Judaic traditions. One might offer it, but one is more likely to offer it after actual steps have been taken to right the wrong.

Oust Bibi, finally put him in prison for heck's sake (the man is a thief), and then we might talk forgiveness.

But, even then, you are lucky if you get it.

chemoelectric, 12 days ago

(Holding grudges—particularly against fellow Jews, Jack Klompus-style—is looked down upon, however. So one might simply be left unforgiven, but not actively persecuted.)

chemoelectric, 10 days ago

@deirdresm My core problem is that Israeli Jews and the Jewish Diaspora have an asymmetrical relationship: you scratch my back, you scratch mine.

I am 3/4 Ashkenazi Jewish, and on both the maternal and paternal lines, and went to Hebrew School at a very poorly attended Conservative synagogue in New Jersey. I am atheist. My relationship to Judaism is it is my people's "tribal" religion and a way of collecting our wisdoms, literature, stupidities, etc. Jewry is the term that matters here, though.

chemoelectric, 10 days ago

@deirdresm Bibi, after all, hardly follows Judaism. It is no secret he does not follow Judaism. But he cannot possibly avoid being a Jew, however much he might actually desire it. He is a carbuncle on the ass of Jewry.

He is the sort who try to convince the Gentiles (and keep in mind I am 1/4 Gentile, so no hating on the Goyim shall be tolerated) that he is like them and NOT like all the Shylocks out there (such as the caricatures Yair Netanyahu was caught peddling).

chemoelectric, 10 days ago

@deirdresm I can tell you from my own family background, a bunch of working Jews are no better than a bunch of working anybodies. Bigots and idiots like the rest. "Seinfeld" is reality. It is prejudice that Jews might somehow be superhuman and surpass that.

But this should be obvious. My Grandma was from East New York, where the next generation of kids after her were recruited to be part of Murder Inc. Jews were gangsters like everyone, because JEWS ARE PEOPLE.

This last is what few accept.

chemoelectric, 13 days ago

(Of course the main reason Canada doesn't have these problems to similar degree is it is much "Whiter" and doesn't border Mexico. So keep that in mind if you are planning a migration.)

chemoelectric, 14 days ago

@swearyanthony I boost before reading, because I know darn well the guy has the brains of a block of wood.

chemoelectric, 14 days ago

@swearyanthony I could only scan that dumbshit fascistic stuff. Basically Dorsey was calling for Big Brother forcing everyone to listen to Trump on Dorseychannel. And there should be no need to convince people to give you the money to pay for it, either. All you need is a magic protocol and then it pays for itself in Bitcoins.

chemoelectric, 14 days ago

@swearyanthony Do you know this genius was nearly finished with college when he dropped out. Most of these geniuses at least drop out early.

chemoelectric, 14 days ago

@DreadShips You never brick the device automatically.

NEVER.

This seems a simple rule of thumb.

chemoelectric, 13 days ago

@rastilin @DreadShips You don't know what the situation actually is when you are having it happen.

chemoelectric, 15 days ago

@Dianora My argument is as follows: All "quantum" problems, once stated, are word problems in mathematics. So what quantum physicists are claiming is literally that there exist word problems that can be solved correctly by no method other than the "quantum mechanics" of Pauli, Dirac, etc. Furthermore, the 2022 Nobel Prize was awarded to Clauser for arriving at a different, incorrect answer to such a word problem by using other methods...

chemoelectric, 15 days ago

@Dianora But this is ludicrous, for two reasons.

1. Any word problem can be converted to an infinite number of logically equivalent word problems about different subject matter. So do these magical properties of "quantum" problems carry over to equivalent problems about frogs or cookie boxes?

2. All mathematical methods, applied to the same problem, must arrive at the same result. So Clauser must simply have done his math incorrectly. Which he did.

(Also he's an infamous "climate denier".)

chemoelectric, 15 days ago

@Dianora My interpretation is the simplest: there is simply NO SUCH THING as "quantum" physics. There is only physics, some of which has mistakenly been walled off from full inquiry with the label "quantum". The label means: "You are forbidden to use any methods but Quantum Mechanics®".

chemoelectric, 15 days ago

@Dianora Nobel prizes are now even reported in Science magazine as being destructive. Yet no one can bring themselves to call for their abolition.

Do you remember those guys who obviously had a screw loose (literally) and yet had that rag Nature rush publishing a paper for them (which I read) so they could get a Nobel Prize for discovering FTL? No one showered them with opprobrium for seeking a Nobel Prize instead of seeking insight into the nature of things.

chemoelectric, 15 days ago

@Dianora They gave Clauser this prize even though the noteworthy physicist E.T. Jaynes already debunked Clauser's work in the 1980s. But Jaynes had to publish at a maximum entropy methods conference. The physics community has its ears plugged.

It is a pseudoscience cult.

chemoelectric, 15 days ago

@Dianora Fake research is common in biomed, as is often reported in Science. But I think a lot of physics research might be fake, too. I suspect the experiments flying atomic clocks around the world have been faked, for instance.

(In any case they are not EVEN REMOTELY a test of the Twin Paradox, which requires INERTIAL motion, not merely motion that "feels inertial to the passengers".)

chemoelectric, 15 days ago

@Dianora Things are very bad. Magazines advertize themselves by what? Their "Impact Factor". IOW by their value in advancing a citation-churner's career.

chemoelectric, 15 days ago

@Dianora We live in a Dark Age. I mean that quite sincerely. It began a century ago. The scientific era ended roughly with the 19th century.

Technology advances, but it does during Dark Ages. Technology cannot be stopped completely. Fundamental physics pretty much has been.