That may be your perfect search engine, I jyst want proper boolean operators on a sesrch engine that doesn’t think it knows what I want better than I do, and doesn’t pack the results out with pages that don’t match all the criteria just for the sake of it. The sort of thing you described would be anathema to me, as I suspect my preferred option may be to you.
Probably not, but used with sufficient invective I think you could make people feel like they’ve been insulted with out actually doing so. ‘You blasted multicellular mammal! What have you done this time? What are you, bipedal or something? Eukaryote!’
That argument seems to boil down to whether or not a thing can be a member of a category before that category is described and named by humans, or presumably any sentient entity. You seem to ne arguing that it can’t, I would say it can.
Considered anything that existed before humans. Let’s take dinosaurs. They existed, but before humans came up with the name ‘dinosaur’ were they dinosaurs? I would say that the category existed even though there were no humans to describe it. Likewise with aesthetic categories, the entity exists and either fits within the category, or it does not, even if the category has not been described by humans. Thus, if you consider fossils to be poetry, they are, indeed, poetry older than words.
If we’re nit picking the meme I would instead take issue with the concept of fossils being a memory of bones. We have fossils of plants, boneless creatures and even soft tissue from creatures with bones. Despite that, I think the meme is reasonable enough, and a fair way to look at things.
I think I understand your point of view, but I would argue that even an aesthetic category such as ‘poetry’ can exist without sentient beings to experience it. Ultimately the category is not defined by the things in it, but by the criteria that define what is in it, and so the category of ‘poetry’ is populated by everything that fits a definition along the lines of: combinations of words or arrangements of things that would spark an aesthetic experience, rather than things that do spark such an experience. This is necessary if we wish to include works that have been created, and which presumably do not generate precisely those feelings in the author, but which have not yet been experienced by others yet. I would suggest we should include such works from creation, rather than them suddenly becoming poetry when first experienced by an audience. If we use the latter definition, who creates the poety, the author or the first audience?
If you check other sources as well, it seems to, in fact, be 1000 times gravity. For example check The Audubon Society where it’s quoted as ‘1500 g-force’ units, compared to about 5 on a rollercoaster, this paper which seems to show it as even greater in figure 2 or The Zooilogical Society of London which cites 10000 m/s/s or around 1000 g.
Interestingly, as woodpecker brains apparently weight about 2.5 grams, the difference between 9.8N of force and 1000 g=0.00259.811000=24.525N isn’t all that great. From reading around it seems their skulls and tongues don’t even absorb much impact. as it’d make their digging less efficient, their brains are just light enough and structured so they don’t get damaged.
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Bird mechanic sucks teeth: well, the wings are out of alignment and some cowboy’s got the quack valve out of alignment. I can fix it, but it isn’t going to be cheep. Mind you, if you fly it like this you’re likely to have a nasty accident.
Customer: I know your tricks! Stop trying to up-sell me. I only brought it in for a beak polish. I’m going and I’m going to leave a bad review on twitter!
Bird takes off, immediately veers into the path of a plane, which promptly bursts into flames.
I’ve seen reports that slowing down the rate that someone with dyslexia reads by adding some difficulty to recognising the words and likewise increasing how much they have to focus on seeing the words actually helps with compression. I suspect this works in a similar way. It took me a few goes to work out how out of order it wss, and I’m not dyslexic.
That’s just the author getting fed up of their character and killing them off. From the character’s point of view the shot sort of comes from right-angles to reality.
It’s not just kids, most adults would talk this much too, and probably feel a lot better for it, if they hadn’t had it knocked out of them and had someone they trust to talk to.
If you are engulfed by the planet as soon as you step foot on it the question of whether they provide adaquate nutrition is rather moot. Mind you, if you, all other surface dwelling life, and presumably most of the scenery have sunk into the planet, can it truly be said to be made of sandwiches any more?
I think it would depend on the ratio of jam to peanut butter and bread. High sugar concentrations are an excellent way of preventing bacterial growth as it acts as a desiccant which is why jam can last so long without spoiling. So, unless there’s enough moisture in the peanut butter and bread, your discarded gut bacteria will die out. It turns out that too much of a good thing really can be bad for you.
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A fair point, I hadn’t realized they’d stopped printing physical copies. They still seem to think of themselves as a newspaper though, and I suppose old conventions die hard.
A letter or phone call probably wont have much effect, but actually engaging with them over the course of their term might. The more people who do it the more they’ll respond. Sure politicians will follow the money, but they also know they need to get re-elected if they want to stay on that particular gravy train. If they’re getting the message, loud and clear, that one course of action will lose them votes, they’re more likely to steer a different course, especially if their margin is small. You’re unlikely to see a politician completely flip on a significant philosophy, so I wouldn’t expect miracles, but enough small changes make a big difference.
From their point of view all protests tell them is that a particular course of action is unpopular and will lose them votes, but its a fairly extreme way of sending that message. A concerted effort by even a fairly small group over a longer period has a similar effect. Throwing money at them certainly helps, but isn’t necessary.
To be clear, I’m not American, but, at least currently, the same basics apply, its probably just harder to cut through the clamour to be heard.
Mostly what it tells me is that mist voters make no effort to engage with their politicians to tell them how they should act and what they should support if they want their vote. If you don’t engage you will be ignored.
Election season is absolutely the least effective time to be pushing politicians to change as they can’t do so without risking upsetting the balance of votes they expect. Instead call them and write to them during their term. Don’t let up, be the voice they keep hearing and their attitudes will slowly start to change as they hear your message more loudly than the vague background they’re surrounded by. Make it easy for them to do what you want by stating it clearly and politely but firmly and repeatedly. Ideally show them that it taps into a groundswell of opinion that boosts their vote count.
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