2024 US Presidential Election

[brokedownpalace10]

Went looking for my old QSL card.

And found a couple more pics of older stuff.

And now back to our regularly scheduled program.

 

[ions]

But you just said to add more positions to congress to handle the funding decisions, how is that any different

I did not.

 

[someguyontheinternet]

Then get elected officials who can handle the work load. I already said that.

 

[ions]

I did not.

Your representative and senators can be ‘smart’ enough to read a scientific proposal and decide whether it warrants new coin. Same ol 476? Are there?

 

[someguyontheinternet]

Your representative and senators can be ‘smart’ enough to read a scientific proposal and decide whether it warrants new coin. Same ol 476? Are there?

I have met some. No they are not

 

[ions]

Elect your representative accordingly. Sorry it was passive above

 

[someguyontheinternet]

How is that possible when only brain dead idiots run

 

[ions]

There’s also a private market where shit gets funded too. Don’t gotta be public sector.

 

[someguyontheinternet]

How does that solve the issue with publicly funded research

The private sector only funds things that make a profit and basically never fund basic science

 

[ions]

There’s an expression or two.
Beating a dead horse.
Milking a dead cow.

 

[someguyontheinternet]

So funding basic science is beating a dead horse?

 

[ions]

This is the point where I say.
I charge.
Pay me and I’ll explain the viewpoint.

 

[someguyontheinternet]

None of what you've written so far has convinced me that you actually know or could figure it out

See? That's how funding science works. You just got denied funding

 

[ions]

Accusations.

 

[alasdairm]

Those cities are majority black, 82% and 59%, which is the demographic that votes around 90% blue, and commits the majority of shootings

90% of 82% and 59% are 74% and 53%. i'm not sure what point you're making other than the bad stuff that happens in red states is the fault of blue cities?

blue cities which represent a relatively small percentage of the total population of the state. as i said, jackson has a population of ~146,000 which is just 5% of the total state population. so would gun crime figures from jackson disproportionately skew, especially with other cities taken in to account, the overall state number? probably. but even if everybody in jackson voted democrat, there are still 2.8 million other people who live in that red state with the highest incidence of gun death per capita.

again, if you would like to propose to what extent the city figures impact the state figures, i'd still love to read your analysis.

alasdair

 

[jasperkent]

We are approaching solar max.

And of course that big old fiery ball in the sky has no effect on earth's weather and climate, right?

Yes, I've been following this too. It's fascinating and rather concerning.

But two things can both be true.

I just don't get how some people think that we can continually pump increasing amounts of methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and other gasses into the atmosphere and it will have no effect whatsoever. Surely basic common sense says that it will.

 

[-=SS=-]

I just don't get how some people think that we can continually pump increasing amounts of methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and other gasses into the atmosphere and it will have no effect whatsoever. Surely basic common sense says that it will.

You are aware that plants consume Co2, yes? And that both methane and carbon monoxide breakdown to Co2?

 

[someguyontheinternet]

How does a molecule with two atoms break down into a molecule with three atoms

 

[ions]

Catalytic converters. But that’s some sort of addition rxn not decomposition.

 

[alasdairm]

How does a molecule with two atoms break down into a molecule with three atoms

i think maybe "break down" is not the best choice of phrase there.

carbon monoxide can oxidise into carbon dioxide (2 CO + O2 → 2 CO2) typically in the presence of a catalyst. as ions notes, that's exactly what a catalytic converter does.

alasdair