tadmjones
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3 hours ago, AlexL said:
Would see? Certainly not, maybe only suspect...
"No, there is no way to hold any kind of elections during war/martial law. For details see Martial law in Ukraine. Besides, the respective legislation was adopted long before Zelensky became president.😁"
"Besides" according to Oxford dictionary means in addition to or apart from. How was it you used the word as preamble to the legislation's origin? I inferred you implied I thought or intimated that Z was the cause of the legislation, I just couldn't fathom another reason on your part to add this.
Looking forward to hearing your reasoning on this particular example of syntax.
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22 hours ago, tadmjones said:
How is Zelenskkyyii polling in this cycle ?
Notice the comical misspelling , and the fact that it is a question without an answer, cuz no cycle?
BTW I've lost track, which of us is rubber ?
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Posted 44 minutes ago (edited)10 hours ago, tadmjones said:Expand11 hours ago, AlexL said:
I wasn't implying that you were implying this.
Besides, there was a lot more in my comment...
The more was arbitrary claptrap as there will be no election , as ordered by Z.
"1. Missing are your apologies for putting words in my mouth - about what I was allegedly implying.
Besides, the respective legislation was adopted long before Zelensky became president.😁"
Allegedly ? An objective reading would see that comment as an unsolicited 'off topic' remark. lol face
Besides, I was just making a declarative statement about my implication or lack thereof, it wasn't an explicit accusation. You know how implication and inference work, yeah ? Perhaps even better than the level of my legal understanding of Ukrainian constitutional law.
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12 minutes ago, AlexL said:
I wasn't implying that you were implying this.
Besides, there was a lot more in my comment...
The more was arbitrary claptrap as there will be no election , as ordered by Z. Unless assuming he sues for peace and rescinds martial law and then I guess steps down and the office is vacated for six months ? Ukrainian constitutional law is a little fuzzy for me, but please don’t take that as opportunity to explain to me the intricacies therein , as I view the situation as more of a Slavic civil war spurned on by those bent on weakening Russia.
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I wasn’t implying Z orchestrated the legislation he authorized. Quizzical face
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In the 'biz' 3% goes to the listing agent and 3% to the buyer's agent , if the same agency sells their own listing they could get the full 6, but to sweeten the deal they will sometimes negotiate either with the buyer or the other agent to lower the rate total.
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22 minutes ago, AlexL said:
This does not follow.
Yes, this does follow.
Can you please post the link? And verify the Wiki's references for this number? I found recent poll numbers which are more than double of yours.
I found your number - 23.7% - in these somewhat peculiar publications : Sputnik Afrique, TASS, Iran Front Page, RT International.
Off topic.
The numbers on wiki are from SOCIS which looks like an Ukrainian org, and by double do you mean Z has 46 and the other guy has 80 ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Ukrainian_presidential_election
And it was the 'topic' of my comment as I explained.
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4 minutes ago, AlexL said:
I am still waiting for a response to my second question - "what does follow from the poll?"
What follows is Zelenskyy is currently president for life, or for as long as martial law is not rescinded. So elections do not matter at this time in the Ukraine, if they ever did, really.
I inferred from Stephen's post that he was criticizing the 'undemocratic' nature of dictatorships. By citing official statistics from regimes that charade about elections. I suspect too , that he is throwing shade at what he thinks Trump supporters believe about our recent and present cycle(s). Surely he must realize that Biden is a titular President, his own AG finds him incompetent to stand trial.
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Off the top of my head , and I had not thought about this previously, but are other countries' real estate markets structured the same as the US's? Are mortgages and mortgage markets similar?
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26 minutes ago, AlexL said:
Yes, how is he and what follows from it?
A wikipedia entry shows a current poll with Zelenskyy at 23.7% and his former Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces and current Amb to the UK at 41.4 % , but with the extension of martial law it doesn't look like there will be an election this March when it was constitutionally mandated to take place. So for now polling really isn't a 'thing' , yeah ?
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How is Zelenskkyyii polling in this cycle ?
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It looks like a 6% rate was last seen in 1992 and hasn't gone below or even to 5% since.
Maybe 'high' is a clickbaiting term ?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/777612/average-commission-rate-realtors-usa/
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1 hour ago, Doug Morris said:
Yes, but the devil might be in the details.
And the detail I am harping on is the detail in this article ie age restrictions for social media accounts.
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Too bad, I guess, that the street you grew up on wasn't populated by stricter constitutionalists.
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2 hours ago, Doug Morris said:
They don't raise the sort of issues that Gus talked about.
The law in question is "one size fits all". We probably need a more complicated, nuanced approach. The better parents have a lot of responsibility here. We need to avoid closing paths to help for those children who need protection from bad parents.
In the article the example of bad parenting is given as an arranged marriage to a first cousin, and that an age restriction on creating an account on a social media platform could harm children in a like situation by barring them from receiving certain information, contacts, or resources.
The author agrees that the legislation is 'bad' because of that effect and the article also talks about suppression of speech or expression.
I am saying the protection children need from bad parenting would be protection from their parents allowing them to participate on social media, and I don't think it is 'bad legislation' unless there is an argument that 'objective laws' that bar selling alcohol and tobacco to minors are 'bad' too.
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Are laws that place age restrictions on tobacco and alcohol use 'bad legislation'?
The psychological manipulations that all persons who use 'social media' are subject to are not the 'latest in moral panics' , they are design features of the medium. No one disputes that designers of the tech were studying and designing platforms with the expressed purpose of exploiting psychological manipulation techniques and effects, eg how to engage and capture attention, brain chemical fluctuations based on responses in physically interacting with touch screens, ect.
Placing age restrictions on accessing the 'internet' because networked computers qua networks is a manifestation of demonic forces would be a 'moral panic'. Disallowing entities from profiting on uninformed consent of minors isn't necessarily bad legislation, perhaps anti big L Libertarian, but it doesn't 'feel' that bad. I mean I wouldn't punish(unless it was my child) the fifth grader for sneaking a cigarette behind the playground, but if they bought a pack from the corner store I'd see that as abuse by the store owner.
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28 minutes ago, EC said:
I suggest you read about genetics and evolution. It's not my job to do your thinking and learning for you.
Now I think you've misinterpreted my motivations.
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On 3/8/2024 at 11:35 PM, EC said:
Of course, slight changes over time. But that is so obvious I don't understand the point in stating it here.
Edit: If you are asking if life evolves at times at a non-linear rate and at times accelerates exponentially then the answer is yes, for example after the great oxygenation event. There's also dead-ends and repeats like crabs.
My original comment was sort of a shit post, though not as denigration to Stephen's contribution, just a semi-humorous little 'throw it out there thingy'. But our little back and forth about it has brought, at least to my mind, thoughts in tangential areas. Eg. the origin of and types of petro-chemicals colloquially or perhaps technically referred to as 'fossil fuels' , is there a distribution of 'rates' of evolution dependent on organism type? how long ago was Pangea a place? as in if we assume a linear rate of plant evolution, than is it even plausible to think the development of 'the proto-types of the proto-types' would stretch back 700 million years? and how does a timeline like that match up with the age of the planet and how that might affect developing a gauge for evolutionary 'rates'.
One of O'ism's strongest suits or powerful attributes is the importance placed on integration of non contradictory identification. For me that highlighted the idea of not only using 'logic' to identify 'facts' but has to also be coupled to the idea that all facts correctly identified need to be integrated into the set of all previously 'proven facts'.
And now your latest comment has touched on, to me anyways, a possible ontological point, but perhaps it is just me reading too much into semantics. But I am curious , when you say "life evolves" , you mean different 'forms of life' can and do evolve at rates consistent within the range of possibility and circumstances available for say an increase in 'survivablity ' of certain or various forms , or that 'life' is evolving 'through' the various forms? Is 'the vital force' changing constitution or do the germ lines of living things change? Ie that 'life' gets more complex through time ?or that organisms 'obviously' change through time by genetic variation?
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11 hours ago, EC said:
No. I didn't make such a claim and it was actually a bit sooner than a billion years after Earth first formed when the first life appeared. I was trying to get you to state what you were asking not make up a bunch of stuff I didn't say and attribute it to me somehow.
But do you think the rate of plant evolution is linear? If it is then what I said about the proto types of the proto types would/could be true right ?
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3 hours ago, monart said:
Is Bacon here expressing an aspect of what Rand calls "the metaphysical vs the man-made"?
I was responding to the idea of moving mountains lol.
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Oops too late for edit , liminal should be luminal
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52 minutes ago, EC said:
Were they fossilized when they when fossilized? Not being rude but unless I'm misunderstanding what you are actually asking the answer is clearly yes. Also remember, that the vast majority of that ancient plant life is what we now use to run our vehicles though.
In walks the mystics: "Hey guys, you know none of this is possible because everything is really only like 8000 years old!" LOL
So you accept that rate of plant evolution is relatively linear? The proto types of the proto-types of tree/ferns mentioned were in the process of evolving for the prior 350 million years? I was under the impression that a rough estimate is like a billion years after the earth formed and ‘cooled’ , attained a state that we would recognize as earth like now, unicellular life got started and then maintained a rather static almost homeostasis rate of growth but not development , for as much as a few billions years of nothing but unicellular life forms until bam! eukaryotes!
I think eukaryotes fossils are like 1.9 billion years old , looks like fits and spurts there , but maybe linear if the ages are misaligned, I suppose.
And isn’t fossil fuels really a misnomer ?
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22 hours ago, EC said:
That type of conjecture is I think an example of ‘trying to create the territory out of the map’ fallacious framing. Not the conjecture qua conjecture , as much as treating the thesis of a possible feature of reality as sufficient cause to claim having found a feature of reality.
As science physics identifies features of reality and allows for predictions of the behavior of reality. The ‘maths’ allowed for the predictions that lead to the empirical proof of the possibility of atom splitting. And the splitting proved the maths.I’m not versed in the history of the scientific development of knowledge of fusion and fission and the technologies that made manipulation of those forces possible, but I’d assumed it is in some sense based on the maths that were based on observations of star like objects.
Are there analogous instances observed of Supra liminal phenomena or does some interpretation of ‘the maths’ lead to a possibility by interpretation alone?
Quantifying the empirical evidence of the facts of reality doesn’t necessarily lead to the ability to exploit the laws of physics in such a way as to create a ‘new’ phenomenon, do we not first need to identify an instance of super liminal motion before exploiting the forces ? -
Selfish Christians Citing Ayn Rand
in Psychology and Self Improvement
Posted · Edited by tadmjones
Is that to mean Rand and Augustine agree that embracing God is a negation of the self or the mind? both? or are they one and the same?
I've long thought that mind and self were the same, but lately I'm perplexed with the notion that self contains the mind as an aspect. That the more fundamental self is consciousness as such. The underlying awareness of the functioning of the mind and its contents are objects to the self.