If you’re doing something like gathering research materials, a lot of times people will grab a bunch of stuff of the shelves at once then take it all back to a table somewhere to peruse. In that scenario it’s definitely likely you’ll forget where something went, or mix things up.

I agree that driving is unnatural and overstimulating, and that’s definitely part of it. I think another part of it is that it’s really easy to see other drivers on the road as “other cars” more than “other people”. Driving is dehumanizing, in the sense that it makes it harder for people to see other drivers as fellow humans rather than adversarial machines, and people act accordingly.

PowerShell seems like what you get when you combine the convenience and accessibility of a Linux shell with the annoying verbosity of Java

Back, and to the left…

Not supporting iRobot vacuums isn’t necessarily a bad thing, considering that at the price iRobot is asking for their vacuums, a lot of the other companies in the space offer much nicer models with more features.

I can guarantee you it wasn’t the engineers that wanted it this way

How is the dog shitting in the house the Roomba’s fault?

The last several final fantasy games have been done with realistic graphics though lol

It’s definitely defense. The amount of money spent and the number of people involved is insane, it guarantees incompetence at best, corruption at worst.

Mate, religious people didn’t fill the museums with dinosaurs without feathers.

Right, religious people fill their museums with justifications for dinosaurs being on the ark with all the other animals, and pseudoscientific “proof” of a 6000 year old earth that directly contradicts any real scientific evidence.

Also the irony of you saying that “religious people don’t fill museums with featherless dinos” and then immediately following it up with

Scientists gather evidence… then fill the gaps.

is insane lol. Like are you even approaching this conversation seriously at this point? I feel like you’re still missing my point, even though I’ve explained it multiple times now. What else can I do to explain it to you in a way you’ll understand?

I still feel like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of science, and that you’re trying to conflate the gap-filling that religious people do with the evidence gathering that science does. Which is a wholly disingenuous thing to do.

Where we don’t have proof, we have theories

Based on this sentence, I don’t think you understand how science works, which might be why we’re still talking past each other.

Also it seems like you’re still hung up on what humanity has done historically, but that’s not relevant at all to what I’m talking about. I’m speaking in a pragmatic sense, about what we should do, not what we have done.

we still have museums filled with dinosaurs without feathers

Because we’re still making discoveries and trying to nail down* the details of dino feathers. Feathers rarely fossilize, so it’s a really difficult thing to study.

there are people that preach the big bang theory as fact

Scientists present the big bang theory as fact because of the vast body of evidence that supports it. Just like germ theory, or evolution.

Shit, we still have people thinking the earth is flat.

Contrary to what the evidence shows, so idk what this has to do with anything.

We’re getting off track though. You originally made a claim basically saying that we don’t know enough to say God didn’t create the universe. I’m just trying to point out that that’s not how critical/scientific thinking works. You don’t invent an untestable conclusion and then say “well nothing disproves this yet, so it’s possible”. Not being able to disprove something says nothing about it’s possibility, and not having evidence of something is neither proof, nor disproof, but simply a gap in knowledge. We should be comfortable leaving those gaps empty until we find solid, evidence-based explanations that fill them. We shouldn’t prematurely fill them with untestable claims.

Are we even capable of putting the pieces together that we’re getting?

Yes, absolutely, and more progress is made as more new evidence is found. The thing is, until that happens, scientists are perfectly comfortable with the gaps, and saying “I don’t know”, instead of filling those gaps with an evil sky wizard.

Do you think the astronomers/cosmologists/astrophysicists piecing together the origins of the universe are doing so without evidence?

we’re sure as shit nowhere near understanding anything enough to say a god DIDN’T do it.

But we also have zero solid evidence that a God did do it. Making and believing such an enormous claim without evidence is absolutely bananas

The only way you can come to the conclusion that “acceptance is the goal” of the Bible is by cherry picking from it.

The new testament is full of heinous shit too though. Jesus (who, don’t forget, is still the same vengeful, angry old testament God) condones rape, violence, and killing all throughout it, but says “love thy neighbor” once and everyone thinks he’s gentle as a lamb.

“I come not to bring peace, but a sword” - Matthew 10:34

But we do have evidence that a lot of chemicals in the PFAS family stick around for a long time, and we have evidence that they’re harmful. That’s enough for me to be wary of anything in that group, especially when there are easy alternatives.

I try to plug it in without closely inspecting the port because I can with just about every other type of port. It’s easy to plug in an HDMI, Display Port, or Ethernet cable on the first try because of the asymmetrical shape, and things that use barrel plugs like headphone jacks just don’t care about orientation. USB-A is one of the few port types that combines the worst of both worlds.