The problem with your argument is that this was only 8 months or so ago, and so we all remember how this bill was championed and lauded by the Republicans until Trump said “vote against it because I don’t want the Democrats to have a win”.
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Once upon a time, Republicans had principles. As recently as 2015, they still often pretended to.
When Republicans had principles, we could argue over which side we agreed with, which side was correct.
Now, the Republicans have abandoned the principles that America was founded on.
Now, you don’t even pretend like principles matter. You don’t even pretend like you need to address any of these points GP raised.
It would be extremely damaging to GP’s argument if you would demonstrate that any one of the dozen or so points that he raised was a mischaracterization of the truth.
Apparently you can’t do that, because instead, you call GP self-deluded and complain about his “take”.
Literally just Ad Hominem [0] and Responding to Tone [0].
Shame on you.
Q. Why can’t I have feature X?
A. We thought of that already, and your opinion is wrong.
Q. But basically every other language in existence supports this. And it makes development easier. We would really, really like it. Please?
A. Apparently you don’t get it. Here’s a pointer to a 15 year-old post on a mailing list where the first time someone asked for this, we said no. Your opinion is wrong.
In short: the reason that the human body wouldn’t have evolved to make more GLP-1 automatically yet is because evolution causes populations of organisms (not individuals) to change, over generations, to be better suited to their environment.
And 50-100 years is nothing in terms of evolution. We spent 500k years evolving to optimize gathering every calorie we can. And then yesterday it turned out that maybe it is in fact possible to have too much.
Also, the human body does make some GLP-1 itself. Maybe it was just getting started.
Now, it’s up to you whether or not you just want to do the minimum.
But look at Brian over there! He has 4, sometimes 5 emojis in his commit messages! And a terrific smile…
A cheap android tablet only costs a couple hundred bucks. That's just not that much, even for a poor family.
And that buys years of 'childcare'.
Analogous would be calling the USA “Texas”.
Calling the UK “Britain” is a much more direct comparison.
United States of America -> America
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland -> Britain
Kimg has a few autobiographical characters, but surely the closest has to be when he literally self inserted himself into the gunslinger series.
“All you have to do is harvest the hottest/fastest molecules” pretty much describes exactly what Maxwell’s Daemon is.
Now, you can see from the Wikipedia page that there is at least some debate about the topic. But, I think that generally, most physicists think that Maxwell’s Demon would violate the 2nd law, and that the 2nd law is a real limitation.
It certainly sounds like this device would violate the “metaphysics” definition of the 2nd law, “entropy always increases”. Because it sounds like it’s harvesting energy from heat for “free” (not actually energy from nothing, not violating conservation, but free in that you are not paying for the loss of entropy by increasing entropy somewhere else, which is typically “required”).
I am not a physicist, and in my layman’s understanding, I have always felt that the 2nd law seemed fishy. A lot of other people do, too. It’s called “a scientific law”, but it feels more like a philosophical “principle”. It feels different than, for example, “the law of gravity”.
But, this invention, if it is not a hoax or error, sounds world changing. 94 nW/cm2 means a milliwat for 2 square inches. That’s already usable amounts of power for tiny devices. Can you roll up a couple square meters of this stuff into something like a capacitor and get a usable “free” AA battery?
Is heat about to be free energy? No more problems with global warming? Are our refrigerators and air conditioners soon going to be a source of energy rather than a sink?
If this claim is true, then this is world changing technology available to anyone with pretty basic thin film technology…. And there are YouTubers who will be replicating this soon. Let alone real fabrication labs.
You can see why it’s reasonable to be skeptical…
I use the sapphire preferred card for almost everything, it is my “daily driver”. I never touch my Amazon card, but I have it tied to my Amazon account, and it gives 5% off. Anyone who spends serious money at Amazon should have it just for that benefit alone.
Anyway, a couple of years ago I noticed that it felt like I was paying more on my credit card, and had been for awhile. I wasn’t really paying very close attention to my finances unless something “felt off”.
Well, something felt off, and when I investigated, I saw that there were hundreds of Amazon purchases that I hadn’t made, going back almost 2 years.
Because all my Amazon purchases go through my Amazon chase card, and because I make so many purchases on Amazon, when I see AMAZON on my credit card statement my eye just skips over it.
Well, I noticed a purchase that didn’t line up, and when I investigated, I saw that it was also on the wrong credit card, it was on my sapphire card and not the Amazon card.
Using the tools to dump your entire purchase history to CSV, it was easy to find all of the fraudulent purchases, because they all used the wrong card.
The purchases stretched back over 2 years, for a total price of almost $30,000. It was sort of a perfect storm of me ordering lots of stuff on Amazon, not really looking at Amazon fees on my credit card listings, and doing a couple of remodels during this time so funneling large amounts through Amazon and Home Depot were not out of the norm.
I thought I was screwed when I saw that it had gone on for more than 2 years and 30k, but when I called up Chase they took care of it almost instantly. I was amazed. They definitely earned a loyal customer that day.
So, the deleterious effects of trauma emotions “mattered less”. If you can never sleep through the night without waking up screaming, that is a bad effect. But if you only have a year or two of lifespan left, then you experience less “penalty” than if you had lots of years left.
Now, we ship boys off to war at 18, or even younger. They get PTSD in war, and then live 50+ years afterwards with the bad effects.
The same argument has been used to oppress people since time immemorial, whether they were brown skinned, homosexuals, neurodivergent, Jews, or various other arguments for being “not as we were evolved to be”. (You have targeted one form of neurodivergent people here).
If you ignore the eyeblink of the last 100 years, then we have hundreds of thousands of years of brutal rape, war, misogyny, racism, xenophobia, enslavement, and I’m sure we could think of a few others…
It would be very hard to argue that this is not “what we’re evolved to be”, since we so lustfully pursued these endeavors for literally 100 times as long as we have recorded history.
This argument is basically the same exact sentiment as “because that is Gods will” or “because that is the way it’s always been done” dressed up in a patina of science by including the word “evolved” in it.
Do you disagree with the ‘real’ statement that GP was trying to say, that whatever “functionality on offer” that Discord provides is a poor substitute for forums?
The GP described opposition to his argument, before it was presented, as coming from triggered members of a cult.
If this is not poisoning the well, what changes to his argument need to be present for it to cross over the line?
How much more clear does it need to be?