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  • j4k3@lemmy.worldOPtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldStrata GEE
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    5 days ago

    Imagine being disabled 11 years ago, falling through the cracks and getting no where with disability benefits, in California where this should be easier than most places. I’m looking at homelessness and dying in a gutter somewhere on a cold rainy night because of a super unlucky bicycle commute to work when I encountered two SUVs crashing directly in front of me at speed. The person responsible had a two page long traffic violation history, the cognitive capacity of a third grader, and could only drive for work but was self employed. They literally drove directly into a passing SUV I was behind/beside without looking.

    All I can hope for is that this breaks out into violence because that would indicate hope and that someone cares. No one cared before. There have been around 100k homeless people within 100 miles of me in the greater Los Angeles area for a decade but no one cares. Even the Dems mistreat these people as feral subhuman animals. The Nazis housed and fed people before gassing them. This is the level of ethics we were already at, so getting much worse is rage bait and an act of war and violation of fundamental unalienable human rights. A prisoner of war has more rights to be housed and fed than a disabled or homeless citizen of the USA.









  • No valid arguments there either. Your car does not become a bicycle because it is in the bike lane. No object is ever defined by external factors. Only states can be defined by external factors. This is fundamental elementary language 101. The definition of an object is not related to a definition of state. There is absolutely no excuse for this blunder. Any obfuscation is nonsense. The conceptual foundation is fundamentally flawed.

    There were no planetary scientists consulted whatsoever in this definition. There is no scientific basis. The paper in question is coauthored and the idea of a Highschool teacher in Temecula California. It has no grounding as a scientific concept. It is draconian in logic and completely baseless in science. It is reflective of dogma in the scientific community when it is defended.


  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldPlanet Definitions
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    20 days ago

    I’m a Universalist. It is all the same thing at different phases of matter at various temperatures and pressures combined with the gravity to hold onto various materials. Keep stacking Earths over and over and you will eventually get a gas giant then a star then a black hole.

    What I will never support is the stupidity of defining any object by external criteria. If a gravitationally bound world is acted upon in a way that shifts its orbit, the object cannot be redefined. This is a definition of a state, not an object. Planet, as defined by the IAU is not a noun. Such is what I expect when a highschool teacher wrote a definition instead of actual planetary scientists. I suppose such draconian nonsense was intended to show the backwardness and medieval state of the science of astronomy.