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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • I trawled through your profile a bit, enough to see that you’re reasonably well meaning, but both steeped in biased propaganda and having issues from the many broken systems in the US.

    My question however is how you believe that Trump will make your life better?

    From my perspective (from Europe), you’re exactly the type of person Trump loves grifting off of. Last time he did a lot of killing off lower middle class jobs, plundering your workers rights, protections and wages, mismanaging or dismantling support systems like healthcare, infrastructure, disaster readiness, while also increasing taxes on you. Oh, and also bumbled through the pandemic and disaster responses causing more than a million unnecessary deaths.

    He also openly broke the law, got very questionable payments coinciding with odd policy changes, and leaked/sold national secrets not only betraying the institutions, but the nation itself.

    He’s also a known adulterer, liar, slanderer, prideful cheat.

    So that would seem to disqualify him as a good pick for either policy, statesmanship, patriotism, or moral reasons.

    The only remaining reason then seems to be feelings, no?

    Feel free to tell me what Trump does better than Biden, for your life and/or for the nation, or whatever other perspective is more important for you.


  • Heat is electromagnetic radiation - photons, sound is mechanical displacement - phonons.

    They mostly propagate the same due to being waves, in most other respects they are very different.

    Heat convection is an entirely separate process where heat radiation is aided by the movement of the surrounding medium. Where it would otherwise heat up it’s environment, convection keeps the environment from heating up. Compare coffee in a thermos (very little convection) to a cup you’re blowing on (significant convection); more air movement - more cooling.

    Also, destructive interference does not at all work like that.

    Maybe a more useful analogy could be that waves have like walking animations, where in part of the animation they go up, and in another part they go down. Destructive interference happens when a wave in its’ “up” phase crosses a wave in it’s “down”, meaning the resulting movement looks like nothing. The waves don’t however interact in any way, and will continue on their way and on their own animation cycles.

    The shifting and heating parts are technically true but require very specific circumstances, enough so that I’m more prone to believe it’s another misunderstanding of the physics behind this. But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.


  • Covid had plenty of travel restrictions, took less than a week to set them up. There’s already issue with people being falsely flagged as terrorist or other no-flight risk, and with some of the anti-leftist rhetoric it’s not a big leap to make. Also it’s entirely in line with Russia labelling LGBT as terrorists, which several GOP/MAGAts are breathing heavily over.

    I hope you’re right, I just don’t see anything but decorum stopping them, and they’ve repeatedly thrown that out the window.









  • I understand that this information is against your internal narrative, but a quick look at data for 2021 shows:

    One in two women and one in five men felt unsafe walking alone after dark in a busy public place.

    And data from 2022 shows 45% for the same measure.

    As for harassment:

    2022 - 55% of women 16-34 felt harassed

    2021 - Three out of five, 60% felt harassed during the year.

    Twice as many women reported being harassed as men, and several reported changing their behaviour because of harassment.

    This is also echoed in international studies over multiple cultures. Women are much more often harassed than men, almost exclusively by men, and have more limited freedoms, expressions and rights than men.

    This is not controversial, it is well established in study after study, there is an actual right answer to this, and it’s not the one you’re proposing.

    How is it that you keep ignoring data when faced with it, and instead of presenting supportive data resort to arguing feelings and whataboutisms?

    Edit: Link to 2022 raw data