nautilius

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by nautilius 5y ago
Ah really, there’s no life on the sun? Hey, come to think of it — that was my point exactly!
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by nautilius 5y ago
Yeah, the sun and Venus for example are overrun with life because there’s essentially no competition. That’s just science!
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by nautilius 5y ago
How would you call it then, when people rather follow the advice of their Reality-TV-Star-President and drink bleach against COVID, but absolutely condemn advice by Fauci, CDC, etc, i.e. people who’ve been studying it* for decades? *Not COV
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by nautilius 5y ago
You provided the list, I can’t help that you now do not like it anymore.
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by nautilius 5y ago
I mean, believe what you want, just make sure I’m nowhere near when you explain to the waitress why your party of 20 tipping $11 is so much more generous than the one guy tipping $10.
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by nautilius 5y ago
You may want to run the numbers on Norway (5 mio people), Sweden, Netherlands, etc. and all the others that aren’t even on a list that only shows totals and not per capita ‘generosity’. See, I don’t know if this is helping the case you are
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by nautilius 5y ago
So your point about why the US are great and morally ‘stellar ‘ (to use your word) is that it’s —- big? Wow, that’s anticlimactic.
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by nautilius 5y ago
Your source says that, per capita, Germany pays more than the US.
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by nautilius 5y ago
Oh that’s interesting, do you have some more information or a link?
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by nautilius 5y ago
Again, completely different scenario than what I meant and discussed. You can leave it to me to know what I meant when I threw "advanced-educated-and-good-enough-but-not-connected-enough-so-they’re-stuck-behind -someone-who-is-less-qua
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by nautilius 5y ago
I am not interested in Turchin, I am not interested in a scholarly evaluation of Turchin's catalogue, I am not interested in studying 'Turchin's ideas' (all of which may be super interesting, but I have more pressing mat
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by nautilius 5y ago
Turchin is, of course, free to think whatever he wants (I haven't studied his ideas). However, I can't see how my statement applies in any way to either Bannon or Trump. Trump is unsuspicious of having advanced education and quali
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by nautilius 5y ago
A rotational symmetry implies conservation of angular momentum.
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by nautilius 5y ago
That’s - not at all what I meant.
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by nautilius 5y ago
You have another group, the advanced-educated-and-good-enough-but-not-connected-enough-so-they’re-stuck-behind -someone-who-is-less-qualified. I could imagine they’re the group that feels worst.
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by nautilius 5y ago
The fact that _you_ are "still puzzled" should give you a hint about who is subject to "uncontrolled extreme emotion" in your exchange with Alexandra.
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by nautilius 5y ago
Where is that "uncontrolled extreme emotion" in her words, that you refer to? All I see is some guy who is still hurt almost a year after someone disagreed with him on Twitter. I can't imagine Alexandra has any sleepless nigh