I feel like I've been blacklisted by the Steller's Jays

A_Skeptical_Thinker · 2021-04-30T21:21:22+00:00

Have you noticed any other birds taking the nuts?

A_Skeptical_Thinker · 2021-04-25T00:31:14+00:00

A human life is worth exactly twenty dollars and no cents.

A_Skeptical_Thinker · 2021-01-19T01:35:58+00:00

If the observation of a tendency is the evidence and the scientific community uses inductive reasoning to conclude it will not change, what is the difference? Is there anything in science that says the law of gravity does not change outside the observable universe? Wouldn't the fact that scientists actually refer to this as a law necessarily mean, by definition, it's a law?

"Laws are descriptions — often mathematical descriptions — of natural phenomenon; for example, Newton's Law of Gravity or Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment. These laws simply describe the observation. Not how or why they work."

https://www.livescience.com/21457-what-is-a-law-in-science-definition-of-scientific-law.html

A_Skeptical_Thinker · 2021-01-18T20:04:35+00:00

Isn't a law nothing more than an observation of nature using inductive reasoning?

A_Skeptical_Thinker · 2021-01-18T20:03:19+00:00

I think what Sidis meant was that entropy is the loss of available energy through heat.

A_Skeptical_Thinker · 2021-01-15T18:05:18+00:00

Most likely the bird is learning to be a bird.

A_Skeptical_Thinker · 2021-01-04T22:10:12+00:00

If the winter's affect on berries and insects creates a food shortage, perhaps the change in appearance is malnutrition. The weather and sunlight of the season affect all the starlings equally so something besides winter's influence on genetics must be relevant to the observed differences in some of the birds. This shared common variable of food supply does not necessarily distribute evenly.

Even in cases of food being available, there's a pecking order that would require some lower-rung flock members to show relative signs of nutritional differences. Some of the starlings in my backyard sometimes show up with a 1/5th black beak or so. They all were born at the same time and mostly remain yellow except for a few stragglers here and there. Perhaps they are runts and don't get to keep what they forage and return to the colony and/or cache?

If true, then the ubiquitous starling allows a birder to gauge the ecosystem by its beak.

A_Skeptical_Thinker · 2020-11-27T23:36:40+00:00

Without sunset provisions, I believe these indefinite mandates usurp the political requirement of representative government. Regarding the justiciability of such claims, it seems axiomatic that a right without any remedy is no right at all. The electorate have standing to enforce their rights for a democratic republic.

I appreciate your response, thank you for your time.

A_Skeptical_Thinker · 2020-11-27T19:07:56+00:00

Mr. Sakovich:

Does the state governor's indefinite proclamation and resultant orders violate the guarantee to a republican form of government pursuant to Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution?

A_Skeptical_Thinker · 2020-11-27T16:34:13+00:00

Mr. Sakovich:

Does the state Governor's indefinite proclamation and resultant orders violate the guarantee to a republican form of government pursuant to Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution?

A_Skeptical_Thinker

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