No, that’s a type of person. This is a ruble.

Don’t touch the poop

The scientific method answers “How?” questions. It lets us build models of reality - a map of the territory.

“Why?” questions imply intent- requiring an intelligence making a decision. The scientific method does not and cannot answer those questions.

It’s good, but even Wildbow themselves says it could use a thorough edit - which will likely never happen. Not to say you shouldn’t read it. It’s fantastic.

Thanks for the potato soup tips!

Potato soup is just mashed potatoes with too much water, fight me.

My dude, how does any of that follow from what I said?

I’m saying we have to work together to enact the changes we want, and that requires being dependent on other people’s specializations. Banding together is literally the biggest strength of our species.

Fierce independence is how we got into this mess, and allows exploitation by organized power-hungry groups.

People need to cooperate in egalitarian collectives to achieve goals and resist exploitation.

Boss made a dollar
I made a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time.

Now boss makes a thousand
And gives us a cent
While he’s got employees
Who can’t pay the rent.

When boss makes a million
And the workers make jack
That’s when we strike
And take our lives back.

“It’s like he’s threatenin’ me or somthin’.”

Whomst’d’ve

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What’s so funny about Biggus Dickus?

Yes, actually.

“Make Congress Work Again”

This is going to require good branding and simplified explanations.

What we have going for us is that basically everyone agrees that Congress isn’t functional.

You need a small list of very focused demands. Occupy Wall Street and BLM failed because they started tacking on too many things.

Here are demands that will fix the core issues at the federal level:

1. An expansion of the number of seats in the house and senate. At the federal level, each congress person represents far too many constituents. This is not unprecedented; the house has been expanded before.
2. We must switch from first-past-the-post to proportional representation.
3. The Senate’s role in passing legislation must be reduced to a time-based veto only. Meaning: a bill passed by the House must be vetoed by the Senate within 90 days or it goes to the president’s desk.
4. An overturning of the Citizens United decision and publicly funded elections.
5. Removal of the presidental pardon.

These five items must be implemented if our democracy is to survive. Everything else can be handled after.

I’m not trying to start a fight here.
Your comments come off as someone who is naive to how bad many families are to the point of having a disneyfied view of family.

I’m really glad your personal experience has been great, but please know that is not as common as you think.

Even crazier fact: it’s not just capillary action drawing water up trees. Trees are actually able to create negative pressure: https://www.science4all.org/article/the-amazing-physics-of-water-in-trees/

Don’t you yar me