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The lifetime of a Higgs particle is about 10^-22 seconds, or a tenth of trillionth of a billionth of a seconds." /page 177, by Frank Wilczek/ Higgs bosons are unstable particles and therefore cannot be fundamental particles. So far this is only certainly known to be true for the isolated parti...

I'll put my cards on the table right now; I don't have a strategy for peace. I have one but I doubt people would like it: The complete destruction of all life on earth. You'd make a great Islamist, then... :wink: They think that peace could be achieved by killing all opponents. But that's more &quo...

Harbal wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:15 pmI'll put my cards on the table right now; I don't have a strategy for peace.

I have one but I doubt people would like it:

The complete destruction of all life on earth.

The title of the thread doesn't bear any obvious relationship to the content of the first post.

If you're wrong about everything, then open your eyes and find someone who looks like they aren't. Find out what they think and why. That's as good a place to start as anywhere

Maybe age's audience finally showed up

We're back! Seems faster now

and the line that everyone remembers is this: if the glove does not
fit, you must acquit!

Maybe the second most famous implicit syllogism in history, after "I think therefore I am".

Maybe even more famous than that.

A university got fined for lying for profit, and you're whining because it's a christian university?

mickthinks wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:28 am When MAGA complains about the deep state they mean democratic checks and balances. That is, the things that prevent an authoritarian from seizing absolute power and becoming a dictator.

That's a really interesting interpretation, and I'm annoyed I haven't heard it before.

Walker wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:05 am Trump eclipses the sun, yet again.

So like... he's bringing in an era of darkness? Is that the message?

Look at what biggie has to do just to keep his moral relativism thread afloat. Things shouldn't be that bad. He doesn't have to do that. Nobody cares about what he writes in that thread. Who cares if that thread goes inactive and disappears? Ok, there you have me, I never read that thread because i...

Also, I'd like to point out that VA has organized a 5-or-so-year-long, angry, obsessive, relentless witch hunt against anyone here who is more or less a "philosophical realist". It borders on insanity. While all this time, he got the definition of "philosophical realism" totally...

FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:20 pmLook at what biggie has to do just to keep his moral relativism thread afloat. Things shouldn't be that bad.

He doesn't have to do that. Nobody cares about what he writes in that thread. Who cares if that thread goes inactive and disappears?

How many perverts does it take to put in a light bulb?

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One, but it takes the whole hospital to get it back out again.
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