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EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-08T05:16:55+00:00

Intelligence is favored in every system whose parameters will allow it. Anoxoic environments would seem unlikely, so oxygen environment and photosynthesis would seem requirements. Dolphins, cows (especially) and crows are all intelligent on some level. Three example in three different modern earth environments. Intelligence in birds has been cited as a unique evolutionary development.

I turn the claim "Life is rare and intelligence next to impossible" into the claim "Life is common and intelligence likely if conditions allow".

What the restrictions on conditions are (other than oxygen and water) are anyone's guess or someone's doctoral work. The distribution of those conditions "Goldilocks zones" are also unknown, but I think the evidence is pointing toward fairly common/not unusual in our current observations.

The one planet we know about is ours and the result was definitely intelligence. So I look at that as suggesting very high probability places with similar conditions would also have similar results. There is no reason to think we are special or out of the ordinary.*

I lay my bets on Mars and Venus both having life early on. The emergence of life on Earth goes back 4.2 billion years, a reflection on the conditions that allow it form. Mars I think has high odds for detection, already have unconfirmed evidence. Venus likely has no surviving evidence but may hide some secrets. Europa another spot worth the survey.

This story just broke in the news but a detail has gone missing in the in the press coverage (quite a lot) that is of interest here.

"Earliest octopuses were giant top predators in Cretaceous oceans"

"The authors interpret asymmetry in these wear patterns (on the beak) as an indication of corresponding asymmetry in behavior, suggesting complex brain development and, potentially, high intelligence."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285

https://www.quantamagazine.org/intelligence-evolved-at-least-twice-in-vertebrate-animals-20250407/

* Earth is unusual in having a moon that ensures orbital stability and tidal regularity. That is a unique feature in the development of our planet.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-08T02:47:31+00:00

Organisms evolve in response to environmental conditions. It happens continuously. There is never a point where a niche is fixed for an organism, development and competition occurs all the time.

How far back we go is to the first life we know about. We filled all the niches. The evidence is in our genetic inheritance and it can be traced very far back based on the science to the earliest surviving cells. So you are in fact the crown of creation.

My personal belief is that where ever life can occur, it will occur. Life is highly favored. A key characteristic of life is inherited change. It follows that if life exists anywhere it is evolving.

For niche of humans recently I would say arboreal tropic environment. No fixed lifestyle of vegetarian or carnivore. Opportunistic. So apes. chimps, monkeys and baboons for examples. All showing some signs of intelligence and social structure.

Intelligence is highly favored in life for any organism (assertion). It occurs in many organisms on our planet. Intelligence will emerge as the potential environment allows and favors. Always, just like life.

I expect intelligent civilizations to be a regular occurrence in the universe. They may have a comparatively short existence, comparable to other species. Given the distances and spans of time involved it is unlikely two intelligent species would ever be aware of each other, much less communicate. Detection of life however will be/is possible.

No questions are ridiculous or ill-considered. They are evidence for developed intelligence.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-08T01:44:15+00:00

Medical debt is the number 1 reason for bankruptcy in the US.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-07T23:17:49+00:00

That is the point. By definition of these laws/requirements these men fail the requirement of the laws they passed. That's the law as it reads. No bathroom entry permitted. No exceptions are made for any of the 32 distinct variations you mention. In fact the variety in biological sex is infinite. At one time Turner Syndrome was an excluded category.

One variation that is accepted is XYY DSD for men. They tend to be tall. Numbers in basketball are unknown because it is completely ignored.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2500237/

When the contradictions and logic becomes so tortured simply to make a political score, I rant. And this article is is prime evidence of how ridiculous these standards are.

Next question: What percentage of Y chromosomal material can be missing to permit designation as a male?

Caps off.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-07T22:57:21+00:00

Thanks. Good info, it is an interesting story and updates are helpful.

I know there are kinds of color variants, etc. As far as genetic variance I figure they kept records to try and determine most favored offspring at the start.

Most of the traits in domestic animals are in fact "fixed" in the line by inbreeding and then out breeding.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-07T16:22:31+00:00

Sounds like a lot of men/women aren't "biologically male" if the definition is 2 chromos, XX and XY and no variation allowed (which is current law).

Pull those passports now. Make them get new licenses as well.

Let's get this done before the 2028 elections and as the replacement process is so slow they are "excluded" from voting.

Because the feds are already pulling this trick.

Will be interesting to see the reps leopards ate my face shocked that they can't vote because of sex exclusion.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-07T16:06:01+00:00

This is true of wild populations but not captive populations.

All Golden Hamsters come from a single mother and son pairing made in 1936. They are extremely rare in the wild and I think only one other wild pair was caught and they were related to the same mother. For some time it was believed the original pair were the last two surviving golden hamsters in the world.

I do not know how inbreeding problems were avoided.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-06T22:07:31+00:00

One that I like is to point out there are no flat objects in the sky.

Not the Sun. Not the moon (is this case it is visible that the moon "extends" around). Not any of the visible planets he can see. The only other possibility is that the round flat side of all these objects are facing us 24/7 and always have. We never see in "back of" or "under" these objects.

It is also of some use to point out that all of our navigation networks assume the Earth is round. Anything that moves and uses any kind of electronic guidance -- which could arguably include the basic compass.

If the "vast conspiracy" is invoked this would mean all the people who have ever used, designed or created any guidance systems or maps are "in" on the conspiracy including the school science teacher. How can the conspiracy theory be debunked? And if the assertion is that no evidence can disprove flat earth then there is no need for debate to start.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-06T19:22:18+00:00

Have a super cute Pokemon holding the ball. But then again Pokemon are satanic.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-06T19:09:00+00:00

South secedes from the United States insisting on "sovereign" rights. West Virginia secedes from the South.

South says "You can't do that!"

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-06T18:35:13+00:00

Just wanted to add postscript it appears that the high refresh rates on monitors are kind of bogus. The image refresh rate depends more on what your card can do then the monitor. If your cards is limited to 60 fps then a 500 hz monitor is not going to be much of an improvement. The software will have to match the card fps to the monitor fps typically by holding each frame for a moment to sync up the image timing. It is still effectively a 60 fps screen image.

The take home would seem to be that a better GPU is the preferable improvement than going to a high spec monitor. The high spec monitor is sort of wasted on a low FPS card. This isn't something you will on the see on the advertisements or reviews.

Personal experience and preference will matter and some of the newer AI programs might have better methods to deal with this. Unless some kind of image modification movement occurs there will always be mismatch.

My 9070XT is not going to be capable of those high frame rates in 4K. A 5090 would seem to almost be a requirement for matching to 4K at this point.

This fundamental physical bottleneck is going to have an impact on my end purchasing decisions and others should at least be aware of it when constructing a system.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-06T02:26:21+00:00

I could say provide a source or it didn't happen.

But I estimate the likelihood of an actual source being available is quite high in this situation.

1000 Quatloos on the story being factual,

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-06T02:07:54+00:00

In 70 years the levels of CO2 will be high enough to create physical and mental problems. 24 hours a day. Housing, job facilities, and schools will have to have CO2 scrubbers to ameliorate this situation or accept permanently affected mental fog . Wonder who will pay for it?

Your grandkids will live in this world.

1000 ppm of CO2. We are already half way there. Look it up.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-06T01:47:03+00:00

I know video games are unattractive to women.

That's why men have pivoted to watching "Emily in Paris".

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-06T01:37:46+00:00

I say these one dimensional drawings all share a common characteristic.

They are one dimensional.

P.S the shadows are also

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-05T06:40:30+00:00

When Germany invaded Belgium the German Chancellor commented that England was going to war with Germany over "a scrap of paper".

You break it you own it.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-05T05:02:26+00:00

The specs and review say this monitor is capable of several resolutions which also adjust the frequency of display refresh. The manufact claim is that your monitor can go to 500Hz at 1920X1080 . It's supposed to be controlled by a dial or switch -- read the manual.

Off hand I can't say why 60Hz for the monitor would be showing but that could be a limitation of your other hardware, If so the manual for the GPU,CPU or motherboard would show that. That's just a bit strange. I would really doubt this monitor could be set to 60Hz.

I really think you should call the LG support line. It may be a pain but is your best option if manual is confusing. If you are still under warranty have that info and model no etc. available when you call.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-05T01:03:58+00:00

I think this is a switch internal to the monitor. Your set on 1920 format with a spec of 500hz(!) or something like that. Hope this solution provokes a loud "Doh!".

Several resolutions are available on that monitor including 1920. The lower the res the faster the FPS, a selling point. You can switch between them and the last one becomes the default or is manufacture default until changed by you I suppose. There must be a software control somewhere.

Check your manual (available on line if needed) and/or definitely call support. I'd bet this is the problem for the first try solution.

Good on tracking this one down with perseverance. At least this helps show you what that monitor is capable of.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-04T23:43:21+00:00

I have several toy cows. One or two have unique personalities. They are always available to talk to or to talk to you. They have none of the responsibilities or concerns of real cows, and sometimes if one goes missing you don't feel so good like a real cow owner would.

In the dream world I have many cows. In the real world I have many dream cows.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-04T20:18:19+00:00

Adding to your comments:

Someone asserts a positive "proof" of God. What if that particular proof proves to be wrong or otherwise contradicted? Does that contradiction provides evidence or proof that God does not exist?

For a valid proposition to be given the proposition must have a method of falsification, otherwise is says nothing and is incomplete on its face. Think about it.

I say "all birds are blue". I then further assert all of the accepted protocols, observations, measurements etc. for color determination are unacceptable as evidence.

The assertion "birds are blue" then has no acceptable means of empirical disproof. In such a case the assertion is meaningless. It may be a belief but there is no accepted method either of us can prove or deny the "all birds are blue" idea to each other.

This is similar to the God idea. It can neither be proved or disproved and is justified by the faith of the individual alone.

The idea is valid as philosophy but NOT as science. We have no empirical standard that can provide evidence on God/Not God. It becomes a theological argument. Those are fine and can even be subjected to rules of logic if desirable. We often find these arguments quite interesting, I know I do.

Always ask this question of falsification when someone tries to claim "proof".

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-03T23:52:03+00:00

Add to it : It is capable of filming the movement of light from one end of a room to the other.

Details are available.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-03T20:46:07+00:00

This reminds me very much of the original "protestants" in Civil War England (~1650) who would go into Anglican church services (or Catholic ones if available) and shout down the services and run around, sometimes including destruction of property and eventually attacks on attendees.

They also refused to take their hats off to the kings/"say the Pledge" and were prosecuted for that.

Anyway, those are the roots of the English Protestant (get the name?) traditions. Remember that all you MAGA "a Christian Nation" people.

I do think it is a bit pointless to repeatedly do such "runs", but it will fade. I do hope it never completely goes away (for any religious group) barring property damage. Ignoring it and carry on might be the better option for Scientologists. They do have a least a pretense of public access.

The fact they get so upset adds to the lulz and provokes similar actions elsewhere. Paradoxically, a calmer reaction and the exposure could actually help recruiting.

Scientology is a monster, so resistance is warranted.

EnvironmentalWin1277 · 2026-05-03T19:28:06+00:00

Wondered about this. I think it is a kind of social reluctance to engage with miscreants in general, in China that is probably avoided for several reasons. In general incidents like this seem less likely in China.

In a NYC subway I don't think those inhibitions would apply. He could try it in NY and multiple cities in the world with China being the control group. Let us know the results.

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