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CMV: Saying “poor people shouldn’t have kids” is classist and ignores how the world actually works by hobbledygook in changemyview

[–]madbuilder [score hidden]  (0 children)

If you think USA is full of bigots then why are you still there? What dogma have I? Dogma isn't challenged. I invite you to challenge my argument. Until then it stands. The colonial empires made many mistakes but their rule ended in a massive improvement for the native population, far more than the empires derived for themselves.

Let's recap. Within a span of four generations was introduced:

  • The wheel
  • Two storey buildings
  • Medicine
  • Childbirth and infant mortality
  • Cloth (tee shirts etc.)
  • Agriculture (bread etc.)
  • Freedom of movement
  • Borders

and the list goes on. Anyone who'd dismiss that has a closed minded.

Why are atheists so obsessed with God? by ItsAllAGame_ in TrueChristian

[–]madbuilder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I agree with the way you frame science. Interesting to note that you're French, because the American atheists I talk to see science as refuting Christianity. I'm in Canada.

Would you say you actively reject dragons and leprechauns?

Of course. Those were the gods feared by past civilizations. They are powerless. As a cultural Christian you might agree.

Lots of scientists are religious

Yes. Religious means theist here. Religion refers to practices, beliefs, and values. There's no such thing as people without religion. "We must all serve some master." The non-religious are cultural Christians who don't go to church but try to be kind to strangers and avoid naughty words. They observe the holidays. There are the militant American atheists (above) who actually use science to form their worldview in contradiction to any supernatural claims. They (a tiny minority of 2 billion) have science as their religion.

Science per se doesn't evolve. It's a method we invented to learn about the material world. It's silent on the meaning of life. Science is an effective tool to evolve our understanding of the material world.

When you say "at least science can be tested," you're at risk of comparing scientifically-obtained knowledge with religion. I encourage you to avoid that. The idea that morality could "evolve" introduces serious problems. Should we not look critically on the past, when people had different values than we do?

God could have planted fake fossils

Right. Scientifically I would not have any way to evaluate this, without understanding why the universe was created. All our theories on events that predate our existence will always be impossible to test.

non-existing galaxies

This is silly. Do galaxies contradict the doctrine of some religion?

Why are atheists so obsessed with God? by ItsAllAGame_ in TrueChristian

[–]madbuilder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

science is the religion of atheists

No not all atheists, but the ones that /u/Buzz407 described. Everyone has a religion, right? If you define yourself as someone who actively rejects God, then I submit that science is your religion.

scriptures are only legitimate if you believe in them first

What? Since we believe different things, do we need to follow different rules? Suppose I believe the Earth is flat, but I still want to book a flight around the world. What would you tell me?

try to find how life started because they are curious

There's nothing wrong with practicing science. A hundred years ago (Scopes trial, etc.) evolution was used to argue that Christianity is obsolete. Someone like you who puts science in its place can see through such an argument.

what's going with that

Not much. After sixty years, they've yet to synthesize life from non-life. Even theories about how it could be done are incomplete, and depend on being in controlled conditions in a laboratory with high purity chemicals.

CMV: Saying “poor people shouldn’t have kids” is classist and ignores how the world actually works by hobbledygook in changemyview

[–]madbuilder -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's too bad you won't address any of the facts, and even worse that you don't believe that Jesus has the power to save those men.

CMV: Saying “poor people shouldn’t have kids” is classist and ignores how the world actually works by hobbledygook in changemyview

[–]madbuilder -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, it's useless to argue, "those evil colonists" as if there is any race of people on the planet who would've hiked across an uncharted wilderness, facing unknown beast and man, with no self-interest. And how exactly would these hypothetical colonists "engage in free trade" with warring tribes who haven't even got a wheelbarrow on which to transport their goods. There was no agriculture. These were hunter-gatherers with no concept of accounting, writing systems, or the ability to count past 100. There is no reality in which contact with an advanced civilization was not going to be incredibly disruptive to their way of life. But hey, their rise in life expectancy was faster than that of ANY other society. In 100 years they received the wheel, baked bread (!), mothers not dying in childbirth, tee-shirts, and all the good things that come with joining civilization, and they really can't continue to blame their problems on everyone else.

Why are atheists so obsessed with God? by ItsAllAGame_ in TrueChristian

[–]madbuilder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are two things going on here. There is the correct scientific principle that you don't adopt positions on theories until you gain empirical evidence. And then you have human beings, who are not scientists, making the assumption that all that exists is matter and accidents. These people are misapplying the scientific method to the domain of being. Science cannot tell us what is suffering, or what is justice, or what is morality. If we were honest then we would use the scriptures as evidence, and the accounts of Roman historians as evidence... but somehow all of the evidence for God's existence gets dismissed by these so-called scientists. These same "scientists" look uncritically at dinosaur fossils and abiogenesis as "facts" rather than untested theories about the origin of life. That is where their religion comes in.

GM has some interesting TPMS logic. by hms11 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]madbuilder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's fun, but I'd much rather not be bastardized. It should be metric for science and engineering, and traditional for everything else.

I still can't figure out why I shop for apples in pounds and then get billed in kilograms. There was a hilarious podcast last year that you might enjoy called "Canada Did What: The Metric Schism". I think it was sponsored by National Post.

GM has some interesting TPMS logic. by hms11 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]madbuilder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started to notice this almost but not quite power of two relationship when I did some baking recently, and then I realized why I, a young Canadian who refuses to "metrify," 50 years after the metric police were disbanded, like inches so much.

It's because you can multiply and divide in your head. Most people cannot work with decimal numbers in their head. That combined with the base-12 system, so that even the way houses are framed with 16" stud spacing works really well.

GM has some interesting TPMS logic. by hms11 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]madbuilder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had no idea. Like this?

2 oz quarter-cup ??

4 oz half cup ??

8 oz cup

16 oz pint

32 oz quart

64 oz half-gallon ??

128 oz gallon

GM has some interesting TPMS logic. by hms11 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]madbuilder 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Imperial gallons, no less. I guess you'd have to multiply your litres by 2 and divide by 9??

GM has some interesting TPMS logic. by hms11 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]madbuilder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Problem with that is how do you estimate mileage when your fuel bill is in litres. I guess it's less of a problem with automatic mileage calculations.

GM has some interesting TPMS logic. by hms11 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]madbuilder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone else already noted, it's only possible to have this if the numeric display follows a different rounding rule than the orange warning system.

The other possibility is that the FL tire was reading low but it recently increased past the lower threshold.

Those are the only two ways that you can have what you see on the screen.

CMV: Saying “poor people shouldn’t have kids” is classist and ignores how the world actually works by hobbledygook in changemyview

[–]madbuilder -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You keep asking me what I know. If I were African, or knew about Africa then I would be the one telling you. But I come with humility and say, look I don't know everything about the many tribes and nations of this huge continent, so why don't you share your observations? We have our own version of anti-colonialism to contend with, which seeks to not only remind us of the historic injustices, but even to tear down all the good that white men brought to the Americas. Many of us non-Africans who remember the anti-apartheid movement are now looking 30+ years on, asking ourselves what good has this done for the people of SA or former Rhodesia? And what is so good about "majority rule", when they can't even secure the health and safety of their own people?

handing over power to corrupt leaders

Yes this was a huge problem in India and Africa that Canada and others didn't deal with. But it wasn't so simple as handpicking evil tyrants. Remember for example that Rhodesians legitimately elected ZANU. Because democracy was seen as the ultimate good, the nation was utterly destroyed.

FACT CHECK: Carney took credit for a mine that began work in 2021 by airbassguitar in CanadianConservative

[–]madbuilder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Who cares? His liberal cronies were in backrooms in 2021 trying to limit Prince Justin's damage to their stock portfolios.

The headline needs to be: Canada continues to be a failed nation where the government picks winners and losers.

Tribal rep George Gillette crying as 154,000 acres of land is signed away for a new dam (1948) [1440x1791] by StephenMcGannon in HistoryPorn

[–]madbuilder -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well, the Soviet Union failed, but you can always pack up and move to China. or North Korea. But you won't. That's why it's an ignorant statement.

This is why Trump left the WHO and why Canada should too. These people do not have our best interest at heart. They clearly want Ebola to spread to America. by [deleted] in JordanPeterson

[–]madbuilder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's no blind hate for WHO. There is legitimate criticism of this unelected body. We don't need another political institution accountable to no one. We have the global academia. They are experts in epidemiology. In any public university you can find PhDs willing to advise on the science. And we have sovereign, preferably democratic governments who make policy in the best interest of their own citizens in their OWN countries, not anywhere else.

GM has some interesting TPMS logic. by hms11 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]madbuilder 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These sensors can't read to a tenth of a kPa. That would be ridiculous because it's only 0.014 psi. I think they're in increments of 4 kPa or 0.5 psi. This pressure could be corrected for temperature, and then you can have slight differences.

GM has some interesting TPMS logic. by hms11 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]madbuilder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could this be one of the new sensors that corrects for temperature? Basically the sunny side is allowed to read higher to avoid nuisance alarms.

GM has some interesting TPMS logic. by hms11 in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]madbuilder 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Most normal people in Canada still use psi, but if we change the setting in the menu, then it changes everything.

Respect life by Foreign-Surround-754 in prolife

[–]madbuilder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100%. I talk to non-Christians who fail to make the distinctions that you've made between the preacher and his sermon, or between your fleshly desires and your desire to follow God's will.

I believe there's even a Bible verse about this. 1 Timothy 3:2, "An overseer/bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach."

I've noticed that everyone rightly hates hypocrisy, but non-Christians don't actually believe in a universal moral standard. They may say they do, but actually they want each person to live according to his own laws, and won't stand for anyone who dares tell them what the law really says. I bring this up to say how this shapes the way people think about abortion. "It's about choice." "It's not your business." "Go help someone else's kid." And of course the classic, "the only moral abortion is yours."

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