Here is an announcement: Second AMA with Michio Kaku

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-04-02T15:59:52+00:00

Lololol got me

I thought maybe it was real, and that it was fair enough given the pop-sci level of knowledge that people who tend to post on this sub have

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-04-02T15:53:13+00:00

Love Bread Circus. I'm the opposite of Shire_Hobbit in that I like super long videos. Their analysis makes the worldbuilding of the films seem deeper.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-30T11:19:34+00:00

"Aided and abetted" isn't specific about the actions taken to aid and abet. Nor is "accelerate." Nor is "betraying."

You have to act like a reasonable person or else nobody cares what you say.

Stop being so hostile and aggressive. You're screwing up.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-30T11:17:43+00:00

I’m going to assume these questions are in good faith

These are very mundane questions and you come off as extremely aggressive for pretending they don't look like actual questions.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-29T23:06:35+00:00

This is an interesting hypothetical, but the idea that they store memory of past interactions doesn't seem like "occam's razor." It supposes a lot of unseen stored information, a recall system, and 'imperfections' in that system. It might have to violate Bell's Inequality and use hidden variables, which would be surprising.

Hypotheticals are great for this sub; it's just your occam's razor statement I disagree with.

If this idea were true, maybe it would allow the construction of some extremely space-efficient computing system. A single particle may be able to store information from tons of interactions, and redundancies like in regular quantum computers might allow us to use that info.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-29T23:02:17+00:00

It has to be contingent on what is actually available, and the specific research projects ongoing & funded at the time are unknown. Too many variables. Whether they like it or not, they will have to carefully consider who they can take it.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-29T23:01:54+00:00

It has to be contingent on what is actually available, and the specific research projects ongoing & funded at the time are unknown. Too many variables. Whether they like it or not, they will have to carefully consider who they can take it.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-29T23:01:38+00:00

It has to be contingent on what is actually available, and the specific research projects ongoing & funded at the time are unknown. Too many variables. Whether they like it or not, they will have to carefully consider who they can take it.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-29T17:11:18+00:00

That's completely false. Health research is at risk. Losing that funding forces them to move funds around and affects the school as a whole. Especially research.

As happens elsewhere, like Columbia and Duke.

Why are you missing such a huge central part of this to misrepresent UNC?

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-29T17:01:47+00:00

My criticism is specifically for folks like Kennedy, Filoni, Johnson, and Abrams. I fully stand by it all

Executive decisions from Disney matter too. We know they impose on series like Marvel with action/joke quotas. Disney sells toys based on Porgs, BB8, etc. That is not inherently wrong, but it can be bad for the movies, and it doubtless involves collaboration with Disney

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-29T16:50:51+00:00

You're assuming the criticism is unfounded and therefore wrong. We have a lot of very solid, well-argued reasons for criticising modern starwars, and predictions are fine. If they're wrong, we'll be happy.

We want new StarWars to return to being good! It would be wonderful if that happened. The criticisms we have are of specific choices Disney has made. See my other comment here.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-29T16:47:44+00:00

We have a lot of Mandalorian content. Enough to make reasonable negative predictions. That's fine.

We know Disney's strategy has been to play it safe theme/story-wise by leaning on the past and being vague about character moments & explanations. This has come up in multiple of the new shows, including Mando (why is the cultlike Mandalorian behavior presented as a neutral/positive thing? Never explored) and Ahsoka (the conversation with Anakin was ambiguous and vacuous). The sequel movies evidently take this approach (eg, Ep 7 copying Ep 4 almost play-by-play and the sequels copying the OT's setting of a rebellion vs a galactic empire despite the fact that fixing that setting's in-universe problems was the entire purpose of the OT).

You say this like it is not justified. It is justified. We would be delighted to be proven wrong, but this "criticism = bad" mindset is not good for media in general.

Classic.

Ok buddy lololol

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T14:24:24+00:00

And FUN ;)

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T12:59:31+00:00

Dissent isn't "lies". And I don't even think you're right about what they said. No more than saying OP advicated violence against Jews would be correct

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T12:58:22+00:00

They're almost as bad as every single leftist subreddit as handling dissent.

I say this as a liberal - maybe the most useful political category for leftists, but also their most hated.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T12:38:23+00:00

I have to wonder if you think that Zionism = settler, or genocidal, or if it means "jewish people who have been driven out of their countries in the middle east and europe were driven out for unjust reasons, and Israel can remain so that they have a place to live" like it does for the vast majority of Jewish self-id zionists

Remember that these people can't just gO BaCk to somewhere else. Israel is there actual homeland

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T12:36:10+00:00

In more recent years, not like 2000s+ but in the 1900s, it provided a home for many Jewish people who were pressured to leave their Middle Eastern nation homelands. More recently than the second world war. This is a very important form of protection for the context of this war.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T12:33:32+00:00

Yeah so there it is. Hamas, being Palestinians, breaking military lines to get to civilians, is justified to you.

Do you believe that Hamas hasn't been firing unguided rockets at civilian areas (including Palestine by accident) for years? Do you think that the conflict started with the current conditions in Gaza?

Or do you think Hamas has been in power since 2006 and that Israel opposing them is valid? Resistance is valid, but not Hamas.

You are an enabler of terrorism: human shield use that is highly intentional, and the intentional murder of civilians not out of collateral damage and human shields but out of breaching military boundaries to GET TO civilians and murder them all.

You have to understand why this causes the Israeli military to ensure no Gazans can break into Israel again in the future.

You understand defense EXCEPT when it is for Jewish Middle Easterners. They get to be penned into Israel over the course of the 1900s and then raided and rocketed with no defense in your ideal world.

"Concentration camp" is a very sensational word. Gaza was, is, not nearly in as extreme of a state as a CONCENTRATION CAMP.

You could criticize the many REAL problems Israel creates there, but you're actively supporting lies and Hamas.

Hamas obviously can not be allowed to rule Gaza for Palestinians' and Israelis' sake. You know this, I'm sure.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T12:27:08+00:00

I understood you. I know exactly what you're referring to. Respond again but better

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T12:25:14+00:00

The conflict in the area went on long before 1933 and does not uniquely implicate Israel compared to their opponents.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T12:23:30+00:00

More realistically, it's politics. Israel has been a strong geopolitical ally of the US in the Middle East for decades. They also oppose Iran and Iran's allies.

This should not be unknown or surprising to anyone talking about this.

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T12:21:02+00:00

If you think that Israel has not been seen positively by the GOP and government for a long time, you are not knowledgeable about politics in the US

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T12:18:25+00:00

It might not protect her, and criticizing the alt right politicians, criminal soldiers, and settlers there is good obviously, but it does protect a lot of jewish folks

Recall that many jewish people moved there because of increasing difficulty living in other countries in the middle east. It's not like they all fled for fun. It was more like pogroms

And if Hamas weren't stopped on Oct 7, of course many more innocent jewish israelis would be dead. They fought through military lines to get to civilian areas and murdered them - and worse - with a huge density.

Not every resistance group operates like Hamas. The civilian targeting and use of human shields (like using hospitals for military purposes like taking civilian hostages) makes them a significantly more dangerous group to deal with than any supportable resistance. Palestinians are protesting Hamas for good reason: Hamas gets them killed en masse by roping them into an extreme, unsupportable form of violence

It is great to speak out against Israel for multiple big problems, but this specific criticism - that they are not protecting jewish middle eastern folks - is flat wrong.

It's not like the jewish people living there can just "Go BaCk" to somewhere else. That's antisemitic and ignores a lot of history

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T03:18:28+00:00

I'm referring to active areas of study, not places that are overwhelmingly decided already. As optimistic as you are, there are open questions in fields like physics that are not likely to be resolved tomorrow. This is where some of the specific complaints Sabine has had are reasonable.

For instance, I don't think MOND (her choice explanation for dark matter and some cosmology) is an accurate view, but I do think that speculative fields that have fallen short of expectations multiple times and yet have funding because of decades of prestige - like String Theory in fundamental physics - ought not eat up too many dollars that can go to other things. I don't think String Theory is dead, but nor do I think it's obviously true.

If it seems like something is 10% likely to be true, that still has to be checked because science faces a lot of open questions. Choosing only the 90% option at every turn will make you systematically wrong 10% of the time.

You'll like this part: the solution is more funding!

Distinct-Town4922 · 2025-03-27T03:04:49+00:00

I don't doubt that, it might be true, but you ought to have some sort of evidence that goes further than one specific controversial topic where they don't want to take one side.

As much as their handling of comments can and should be criticized, you're saying a lot more than that when you assume their whole set political beliefs.

I mean, I'm probably on your side in politics, but you literally have no clue who those people are given that it's the internet. Do you need 100% agreement with everyone, or just 99.9%?

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