Lots of feather fluffing, here. Wait and see if the Abraham Accords can and will be extended once Iran is brought to heel. Trump will disappoint those who want war, and I don't think Israel is against that.
So true, and yet so many MAGA-types believe the mainstream media and get excited over something that is not even reality yet. A lot of people are over-driving their headlights.
Very groovy. Iliya Prigogine, back in the 1970s, made the point that natural processes can produce pockets of decreased entropy (I think I made that point), but about as far as that can be applied, is to justify the existence of life at all (Earth sitting in a stream of energy flow). The rest of the arguments are hand-waving without any mechanism for increasing the information content of a living being (i.e., reducing entropy). There is a formal correspondence between information and thermodynamics, as explained by Claude Shannon. It is one of the foundations of modern communication theory and gives the insight that information processing will always require power to drive it, and you can't get power without entropy being increased. But there is no mechanism to cause genetic patterns spontaneously to become more complex, so the argument does not connect with reality. If evolution is supposedly mediated by mutations, it turns out that mutations are generally destructive of genetic information and have never been observed to produce "better" living beings. (The idea that thermodynamics does not apply to living beings is quite false. There is thermodynamics in the conventional chemical sense, via metabolism. And there is information in the genetic code, which also is subject to thermodynamics, through the increase of information in the code.)
Information is rare stuff. It is not conserved. It can be destroyed, never to return. Some people have the mistaken idea that "no information is ever destroyed." Nothing is easier in this harsh universe.
If you were serious and genuinely wanted to learn, you would have taken lots of thermodynamics in university and kept your eyes open for the likes of Prigogine and Shannon. This is all very amusing, in consideration of the fact that no one has any idea how the first form of life arose. Lots of ideas about how it might have evolved, but clueless as to how it was there in the first place. So, evolution has to invoke the assumption of "First, there was Life."
Also, if you were concerned about scientific integrity you would be concerned if someone's personal history was putting a thumb on the scales of his scientific judgement. Are you aware of Lamarck's theory of evolution? It has more logical appeal, but no mechanism.
At least my article of faith does not conflict with observed reality. Your article of faith has problems with observed reality. You don't defend Darwin's predisposition, because you can't. It is contrary to the classic scientific method. (Modern science is effectively the creation of Christians...and some Jews.)
Oh, exactly. And I think there was an aunt who professed to be present at the birth.
Nothing makes it true. The process of environmental adaptation is mistakenly assumed to explain the evolution of vertebrates from invertebrates, for example. This whole subject is treated at length by Lee Spetner in his book, "Not by Chance! Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution." The basic problem is that "evolution" proposes the spontaneous concentration of information (i.e., the reduction of entropy), which is a violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics. There are numerous problems of biological features that are beneficial only in their fully realized form, for which there would never be any "evolutionary" pressure to develop in the absence of that benefit. No explanation for the metamorphosis process of insect development (and "no explanation" is an understatement).
There is another writer, a microbiologist (whose name I cannot now recall) who examined the statistical arguments surrounding conventional evolution and arrived at estimates of process time that are far too long for anything observed. It is conventionally assumed that just about anything can happen if there are millions of years to work with...but it turns out not to be the case. The statistical barriers to the spontaneous process are too immense. He was not a Christian believer, by the way.
But anyway, the point was that Darwin started out with an axe to grind, and that is a very treacherous basis for doing science.
I wish the tortures of Hell on all errant spell-checkers. I have constant fights with that on my cell phone msm texts. At work, I was routing a memo to a man named Gadler, who was a devout Catholic. The spell-checker converted his name to "godless".
To be more specific, there was no birth certificate at all. There was only an image of a birth certificate. And forensic analysis showed that the image was a construct, not a pdf file of a coherent image. No such birth certificate has been found in Hawaiian records. (The "birth certificate" also named a hospital by a name that it was not given until years after the birth date.) The dispute over veracity is more than a "challenge"; it is denial of a fraud. This is not a statistical improbability; it is a physical impossibility.
I suspect they are cheating and drinking spirulina, which has been known for decades as essentially a pure food. Looks like powdered black-green coal dust, and mixes to a dense chartreuse color. But completely harmless and beneficial.
It might be a fun head trip to get ahead of them, call out spirulina as a good thing, point out that it is pure algae, make clips of drinking it, and call them out with thanks for drawing attention to it. Is this called co-opting? Then anyone drinking algae in protest will be retro-branded as a MAGA supporter. Mess with their head, before they're in bed!
I don't let the reference to "democracy" slip by. "Democratic" means having a nature of obtaining popular consent. "Democracy" is mob rule, without let or hindrance; an evil government; the power to rend and tear in the name of virtue. A constitutional republic is government regulated by the rule of law, as approved by the people. Maybe not unanimous in goals, but unanimous in methods. As much alike as night and day.
Every one of us has a fraying point. Not all of us are stoic by nature or habit. Stoicism lives not so much on hopium, but by apathy to the world's shortfalls. Take it as a sign that Dave is strongly in love with this world.
On the other hand, in the Scrooge McDuck comic books, the Beagle Boys (known only by their prison serial numbers) were always the criminals of the story. How times have changed. As nefarious as they were, they would not have matched Fauci's crimes. (They just coveted Scrooge's money bin, filled with 1,000,000 cubic feet of silver dollars...maybe something like 150,000 metric tons of fine silver. Carl Barks, the writer-artist, knew what he was doing.)
It turned out that by inserting a specially-machined part into the Glock's internal mechanism, the gun can be made to fire automatically. The part has since been made illegal to own. But some states are so obsessed that they want to make the firearm itself illegal to own. This is an example of idiots dictating to wiser people.
I think you mean to say "remuneration." It is a common misspelling. (My dear wife, no dummy, is prone to it.)
I know no such thing, and neither do you.
I have no problem with Jeffries having his ass handed to him. The problem is that their blast radius sometimes hands us our asses, too. (This is why you don't fight duels with hand grenades.)
You can allege it, but the idea is fantasy. Even though we have cloud seeding to prompt rainfall, there is no way cloud seeding is capable of originating a hurricane, or even a thunderstorm. As for earthquakes, how? Not even with nuclear devices. Who is telling you this nonsense? Why do you accept it without question?
We've had superconductors for a long time, but they are normally cooled by liquid helium. More recent superconductors require cooling only by liquid nitrogen (warmer only by comparison to liquid helium). Room-temperature is a long time off, if ever. The effect seems to rely on quantum-mechanical processes that get scrambled by the effects of heat as molecular motion.
Echo chamber, much?
A UN inquiry, eh? No problem with the UN. I recall their "peacekeeping" troops in the Congo, decades ago, were found to have committed murder and rape. And I think I recall their branch organization in Gaza to be essentially a shell for Hamas. And coming from Alex Jones on top of it, outspoken in his antipathy toward Israel. I'm sorry, but I've lived too long to drink this Kool-Aid.
It now occurs to me that "Eaton" is a homonym for "Eaten." (not a pun)
British boys' schools were where the term "fag" originated. As from nautical ropework, "fag" meant the tail end of a line of rope (the fag end). It was applied as a nickname to a younger boy who followed an older boy around, like a tail end ("his fag").
I'm happy you must not have had any experience with a major natural disaster.
I have a very personal aversion to volcanic eruptions. Great to view; not to do.
Well, that wasn't the way I was taught to pronounce "eu" in my 3 years of high school German. And I don't recall "s" being pronounced "sh." But these were Prussians, and who knows what depths of debauchery they plumbed...
In Israel is a good place to start.