imagining fields (not forces,

Yeah that thing. Except that they were dubbed “magnetic lines of force”. Also, I remember it being separately explained that even though they were called that, they didn’t represent the direction of force (of course not, or you’d not need the right-hand-rule and left-hand-rule).

Looking at the iron shavings though, it seemed more like low potential energy regions/ stable regions.

Also it give a feeling of being analogous to fringe patterns.

For anyone whose magnet related memories are not filled with various line illustrations of the forces, that’s probably it.

And even though my head is full of those illustrations, I don’t seem to understand how the iron fillings and ferrofluids make the shapes they do instead of just sticking to the magnet. And I am too lazy to do the maths to make myself understand.

The science guys will always do science.
Even if the patronages stop.
Even if other’s start killing them for it.
Even if the whole society calls them a heretic.
The quest for truth defines them.

Just don’t mistake them for science bros

Not really.

They are just getting rid of any and every liberty that any reasonable society would provide.

Not the rights though. We never had such rights. We just didn’t realise those were needed to be written down because others didn’t violate those expectations.

Even in an anarchy, without any written rights, we would have those liberties, given a reasonable society. Just not here.

If they weren’t fast enough, how would they catch the cockroaches?

I think modern science has disregarded the scientific method as not required anymore to make claims about what we “know”.

Yeah, that’s one of the pretty big problems I see happening in the current scenario.
People becoming way more hand-wavy about having been proven wrong, which sometimes seems (we can’t know whether it actually is) outright disingenuous.

The religion related scenario I painted was probably possible due to how long it lasted. Maybe we will have to wait for this one to last long enough to know whether what it yields is as undesirable or more.
For now, at least I don’t see it going in the same direction as the religion power, simply because it’s not the science people that are holding power, but other politics oriented ones. So if it were to go in an undesirable direction in the far future, it would have to be in some other direction.

then aren’t you admitting that so far you haven’t known the answer?

That’s the point of science. Humility and requestioning yourself everytime someone gives new input, instead of sticking to some old text that some human wrote and multiple other humans over a long period of time, translated; all using lossy translation techniques.

This mentality is similar to what you will see from many people in places of power (no matter how small), trying to evade criticism using the same social power that they need to be responsible about. Just that in case of religion, one has found a scapegoat, so unassailable that it can be reused indefinitely.

You can see, which approach is more desirable by simply considering the following facet of the result that we have when we have a science majority vs a religion majority…

• In times when religious organisations were in power, those who criticised them were killed and their works destroyed to as much of an extent as possible
• In times when scientific thought was prevalent (scientific organisations don’t get social power owing to their lack of charisma, which stems from the very basic attribute of the modern philosophy of science - that one can be wrong) the religious organisations criticising science are not destroyed until almost extinction, but are allowed to question all results and have the opportunity to aggregate their views.
  • You will always see some kind of religion vs another
  • You might see “science-ism” vs some other religion
  • You will see political orgs (which represent one of the peaks of social power in the current age) vs some politico-religional orgs trying to destroy and silence the other
  • You will not see science trying to silence a religion
  • You will see businessmen trying to use scientific results as a stepladder to social power. You will also see them fail in the long term, simply due to the nature of science.

You’ve got SVG.

But the main +ive point of a PDF is that it is a pain to work with.

Hey, I was never taught how to rotate a PDF.

I just looked for the button in the viewer.

Sometimes, I just rotate the screen instead.

That patent is essentially trying to say that if you do anything more than a randomly selected behaviour, based on a database, related to previous user interactions, you are infringing the patent. At the same time, the mechanics in the filed patent also depend upon the creation of a database based on the user’s past behaviour.

The implications are just that, if you have more lawyer money than WB, then you can make and sell your game.

I wish

https://parolaanalytics.com/warner-bros-patents-defining-mechanic-from-lord-of-the-rings-video-game/

I was thinking about Apple M3, but then I don’t really get many car ads.

Carry on…

Also, the “Paste Without Formatting” button is paste without formatting

Yeah, that was the only way that worked consistently. Buttons like “Paste Without Formatting” failed in more than a few cases.

Past tense, because it works on Linux. But I still have the old habit and use KWrite sometimes.

Just with someone who remembers how easy it was to be mislead by adults, as a child.

I am trying sooo hard to come up with a point without bringing up the chemical-transification of children, without their parent’s approval, which has been following them being mislead by pro-trans (as in “go become trans because all your problems are your gender”) evangelists.

Well, it might just have been an out of syllabus thing considering I was not taught that in class and only learnt it while having fun somewhere.

Mother for whatever reason decides she doesn’t want to have the embryo implanted.

Who knows, maybe they can’t afford kids. Or her and the father are about to break up. Or she has found out she’s at risk of complications.

I think I am just suffering lack of information.
I assumed the contract is to be an after birth thing and not something that makes sure that the mother has to bear the child.
Besides, if the implantation is not done, hasn’t He not actually done the procedure and can choose another (although hard to do so in time)?
Does the embryo have some kind of compatibility with the mother, for implantation to be successful?

In case He has the option to find another chap for the process in the above cases, I won’t consider the contract extending to this time.

So, you didn’t realise that during the unit test?

A valve controller, yes