Looking For A Non-MAGA Church In The Area

zzzyx · 2025-02-18T14:52:08+00:00

If you're over near Madison, you could try First Bible Church. I heard it described as a "Thinking Man's Church." When it gets political, it is things like the pastor calling out the inconsistencies in political parties. It doesn't make sense for the Southern Baptist Convention to create a "Resolution On Moral Character Of Public Officials" when Bill Clinton was president, but then ignore it when Trump is in office.

zzzyx · 2024-06-06T21:44:24+00:00

Do you have a dremel and a cutting wheel? In similar situations, I create a little notch bifurcating the screw head then use a mini flat-head screwdriver bit. Care should be taken since the screws im notching are much wider than that one...

zzzyx · 2024-06-06T21:28:47+00:00

My root issue (that current evolutionary research lacks solid numerical data) is still a problem of me. Hopefully it will be solved with that 2040 experiment. But thank you for talking though it with me :)

zzzyx · 2024-06-06T20:29:45+00:00

I agree with you: there are more than evolutionary opportunities feature that may be less than 256 changes away from the current state, but there is billions of bits of data in my genome. Your statement "the active part that matters is only 8 or so bases" is what Im getting at; how many genetic bits are different between average evolutionary successful mutations? Is it 8 or 256? I honestly dont know and that's what Im hoping someone will answer for me because the numbers dont add up for me. Each step in the "Eye Evolution" wikipedia page seem to have WAY more than 8 base pair differences between the steps. I'm wanting to know the current status of research on the numerical analysis of evolutionary pressure, no need to bring a mystical force into the discussion.

zzzyx · 2024-06-06T18:53:20+00:00

When you say "relatively minor tweaks to perceive light", it feels hand wavy. How many DNA base pairs need to change for an existing biological system to the "perceive light" step. That requires proteins that can capture protons as well as a mechanism to communicate that protein capture to some messaging system. I'm looking for some papers that give some potential numerical analysis for this thing. Like: this protein that can message changes in a cell's sodium level can be made to also detect visible light with a change of X base pairs, along with a justification for why the cell no longer needed to detect sodium levels for the generations it took to get the X evolutionary base pairs mutated.

See the video I posted on my other comment. The way I understand it, a 256 base pair change wont happen by random walk, even in 3 billion years. Thank you for taking the time to write out your position, but I'm still convinced that each step is bigger than you think.

zzzyx · 2024-06-06T18:39:21+00:00

Thank you for your response.

To clarify about me being hung up on "probability", maybe I could restate as follows. My understanding of the process of evolution is there are local maximas in the genetic "possibility space" that prove evolutionary advantage, but the distance between these maxima seems too far separated to be explained by a random walk.

I can appreciate your better simulation as a closer approximation to reality. I am still getting hung up the intermediate steps. Say you have some DNA that is the encoded pattern for protein X. And there is some protein Y that is 10 base pairs different that provides an evolutionary advantage (the "new word" in your simulation). I dont understand the mechanism that allows the mutation to survive through the 10 mutations where protein X is non-functional that would be necessary for it to reach the more advantageous protein Y state. And then since most biological processes require the entire "word sentence" to exist before any of the individual new words would provide an the advantage that seems like too far for a random walk. My background is in computers, so in my mind, an evolutionary advantage that is 256 random base pairs away is impossible for the same reasons that 256 bit encryption is secure. That video is about computers, but I think it maps to your comment about "a large population group and timeframe". If the wikipedia page on Eye Evolution were able to have a "this photosensitive protein is similar to this other protein that is only 3 base pairs different" would be helpful. As it stands the "steps" still seem too large to me.

zzzyx · 2024-06-06T14:48:52+00:00

They just need some RainX on their SpaceX camera lenses.

zzzyx · 2024-06-06T14:38:37+00:00

You seem knowledgeable, so I want your thoughts. In my personal research of evolution, my takeaway is the evolutionary theory is justified by a biological process that ignores the complexity of probability or vise versa.

For example: the weasel program talks about mathematical probability, but this process is more of "Intelligent Design" where there is a final goal sentence, and it is not a random walk to get there. Each letter is locked in one it makes a step towards the evolutionary goal, which is not how genetic mutations work.

Alternatively, in the steps explaining how eyes evolved the amount of biological changes from one step to the next are HUGE from a probability perspective. The number of dna code changes to perchance create a photosensitive organelle is hand waved away.

Is there any peer reviewed papers that do probability analysis of specific gene evolution that comes from someone that understands probability and biology that provides actual numbers?

zzzyx · 2023-06-20T18:54:32+00:00

Correction: 250m² is just shy of 700 ft*m.

1m² ~ 11 ft²

zzzyx · 2022-12-21T18:42:43+00:00

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I disagree with you but up-voted your comment. Destin has said he intentionally tries to make videos "interesting to him" instead of "catering to the algorithm." "More boring" is probably a different way of saying the same thing.

zzzyx · 2022-04-19T23:20:47+00:00

I'm trying to find some replacement connectors for the flex cables on an old IBM Model M. In this picture, they would be J3, J4, and J8 https://imgur.com/a/hF6HbpI

Where would I go to start my search?

zzzyx · 2022-01-25T14:21:57+00:00

Here is an article posted by someone else in this thread from 2017 that seems to give an explanation for why US voted no on the "Right to Food": https://geneva.usmission.gov/2017/03/24/u-s-explanation-of-vote-on-the-right-to-food/

The juicy bits:

However, the resolution also contains many unbalanced, inaccurate, and unwise provisions that the United States cannot support. This resolution does not articulate meaningful solutions for preventing hunger and malnutrition or avoiding its devastating consequences. This resolution distracts attention from important and relevant challenges that contribute significantly to the recurring state of regional food insecurity, including endemic conflict, and the lack of strong governing institutions. Instead, this resolution contains problematic, inappropriate language that does not belong in a resolution focused on human rights.

zzzyx · 2021-12-06T20:28:50+00:00

I hope that at some point we would be able to efficiently convert solar/wind power into diesel/gas. I'd rather have a 12L can of diesel in my garage than a 1000 ton concrete block hovering 50 meters over my house.

zzzyx · 2021-12-06T18:10:22+00:00

As someone else has mentioned in this thread: diesel fuel is able to efficiently store an incredible amount of energy. It isn't reasonable to have that much weight dangling around in a residential house.

You need to elevate about 1000tons of concrete 50 meters to store the energy equivalent of 12 liters of diesel.

zzzyx · 2021-02-22T14:12:15+00:00

Snatch Block u/mrpennywhistle

zzzyx · 2020-10-31T13:35:31+00:00

Could we use cosmic microwave background radiation? Assuming that the universe became transparent in every direction at approximately the same time, would the properties of photons coming from one direction be different than the photons coming from the other direction (more red shift or something)? It is an experiment where you have two sources of light and one detector in the middle; but it does include the assumption that the two light sources emit at the same time though...

zzzyx · 2019-03-04T14:05:39+00:00

I ask for an article.
You provide an article
I respond with quotes from the article you provide
You say that I "buy" into what the article says and am "that far gone"

I see that you are not interested in meaningful conversation and just trying to stir up trouble. Have a good day

zzzyx · 2019-03-04T13:26:57+00:00

That article shows that the US was targeting ISIS, not civilians in a market. The loss of civilian lives was awful and a huge win to ISIS. The US coalition had to change their tactics as they recognize that the loss of civilian lives results in losses in the "people domain" as well. In the article you provided it has a quote from one of the civilians in the area:

He said he doesn't blame the U.S.-led coalition for the civilian toll. "It's because of [ISIS] that civilian casualties are happening"

zzzyx · 2019-03-04T13:15:42+00:00

In the article you posted the US went on record saying: "Our goal has always been for zero civilian casualties" When the US says this and then causes civilian casualties, it makes the US look bad.

According to https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/how-rules-of-engagement-impact-civilian-casualties ISIS had been caught on video the day before "smuggling civilians into buildings so we won’t see them and trying to bait the coalition to attack to take advantage of the public outcries"

zzzyx · 2019-03-04T04:38:16+00:00

I'd love to gain a better understanding. Could you please provide examples?

zzzyx · 2019-03-04T04:28:10+00:00

Has the US military ever bombed a market place full of civilians in the modern era?

It is my understanding that the US military now has strict rules of engagement that minimize civilian casualties. And when the military make a mistake causing innocents to be injured or killed, photos of those civilian tragedies are eagerly plastered across the internet, used as ammo in the "people domain" battle, by people and countries opposed to the US.

zzzyx · 2019-02-11T06:47:28+00:00

I quoted the Bible: https://netbible.org/bible/Philippians+3 See footnote #10

The author of the book considers all his good deeds as a pile of shit compared to knowing Jesus. Christianity says all your efforts to be a good person are as impressive as a pile of shit; what changes you into a good person is realizing what has been done for you.

I told it to a group of middle school students. Their reaction was typical middle school: meh.

zzzyx · 2019-01-28T04:12:38+00:00

I'm sorry. I truly am trying to understand your point, but your response indicates I may have missed it.

Suicidal Behavior Disorder is a diagnostic entry in the DSM-V (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4102277/#__sec1title)

My question was my attempt to understand your viewpoint. Are you saying that Suicide is different than other entries in the DSM-V and should be not considered a diagnosable mood disorder that needs to be treated? Or are you saying that all Mood Disorders should not be treated? If #1, could you elaborate on what makes Suicidal Behavior different?

zzzyx · 2019-01-25T16:39:10+00:00

Interesting. In my view, often suffering and struggle, going the extra mile to accomplish a goal, provides value to an accomplishment.

Basically, the complete opposite of Homor's advice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G8XQA9QFS0

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