Maybe a helpful visualization is one of the precursors to quantum field theory, Dirac's sea.

The idea is that you can think of a particle as sitting on top of the surface of the "sea" while an anti particle is represented by a hole in the surface, large enough to fit one particle. When a particle encounters such a hole, it naturally drops down into it and settles there. This essentially "destroys" both the particle and the hole (the anti particle).

So essentially the opposite charge, spin, etc of a particle and anti particle are a consequence of their opposition in their fields, not the cause for the annihilation.

(Not a scientist, grains of salt and all that).

I mean, Agile doesn't really demand that you do or don't use tickets. You can definitely use tickets without scrum.

Yeah it's crazy. To me, respect for the presidency keeping it crime-free. People committing crimes in pursuit of the presidency or while in its office should be harshly prosecuted, not let off.

Your inability to come up with a way to produce evidence doesn't make the strong atheist's stance unfalsifiable. Unfalsifiable isn't "We can't produce any evidence that would falsify the claim right now." That would take us to an absurd definition of the word where any scientific theory that requires more advanced technology than we currently have is "unfalsifiable." That's not what the word means.

The difficulty in proving that God exists isn't what makes theism unfalsifiable. You shouldn't make any assumptions about what can or cannot be proven true at some point in the future. What makes it unfalsifiable is that there's no rational way to prove that God doesn't exist, not because of an inability to collect evidence, but because the logical framework constructed by religious claims forbids it. Strong atheism has forbade no such thing. There's no equivalence here.

Strong atheism is, in fact, a religious belief: claims of the non-existence of gods are no more falsifiable than claims of the existence of them, so in order to “know” there is no god one must have faith.

Um... Show evidence that a god exists. Poof, you have falsified the claim that no god exists. Pretty easy, actually.

Those... don't hold any weight lol. Once you post on any website, you hand copyright over to the website owner. That's what gives them permission to relay your message to anyone reading the website. Copyright doesn't do anything to restrict readers of the content (I.e. model trainers). Only publishers.

Just because it's a manipulation doesn't mean it's always avoidable, though. Like Lex Luthor manipulates Superman by putting Lois Lane's life in danger. Letting Lois die isn't typically a real option. He's got no choice but to play the game because he's a moral person.

Are we supposed to just let LGBTQ people die so we can make inroads on the class war? I don't like it, but that's not a real option either.

ITT: A bunch of people who have never heard of information theory suddenly have very strong feelings about it.

Models are not improving? Since when? Last week? Newer models have been scoring higher and higher in both objective and subjective blind tests consistently. This sounds like the kind of delusional anti-AI shit that the OP was talking about. I mean, holy shit, to try to pass off "models aren't improving" with a straight face.

I'm guessing that 6-20 minutes is like the actual time spent driving screws or drilling holes. Each one takes maybe a few seconds. 6-20 minutes in that case translates to hundreds of screws driven, even on the low end. So not nearly as worthless as the time makes it sound.

The point is that flat earth conspiracy theories aren't just "the earth is flat." It's a whole body of conspiracy theories that seek to explain how and why round earthers are suppressing the "truth." And, surprise surprise, it's a conspiracy theory based in hate. It's not a correlation. It literally just is.

They've got more pressing issues to deal with. Trans people aren't going to ban themselves from bathrooms.

Love that the picture associated with this article is Trump staring into the eclipse. Fucking moron.

If we're in a simulation, it's probably a massive universe-spanning one. We're just a blip, both within the scale of the space of the universe and within the history of time of the universe. In that case, we're not important enough for a simulation creator to even care to adjust our capabilities at all. They're not watching us. We're not the point of the simulation.

Everyone's talking about encyclopedias but they weren't always that useful either. They can only fit so much information in those books so some topics would only get like 3 sentences dedicated to them. So yeah, if you were writing a research paper for school you'd spend lots of time at the library trying to find books that had another smidge of information you needed.

If you were lucky, you'd find a really good book that was very relevant to your topic and lean heavily on that. Otherwise, you'd wind up with like a few sentences each from a dozen books that you have to tie together somehow. Wasn't fun.

"Come to my restaurant that exclusively makes dog shit and I'll give you a fine dining meal that's definitely not dog shit. Yes, I already got you in once by making the exact same promises and fed you nothing but dog shit but it'll be different this time, I promise." Still sounds stupid as shit to me.

Guy says "No, not entirely" and then proceeds to explain that they're mostly ignorant and willing to vote for anyone who offers change even if they're an con man who's stated positions will very obviously make things worse. I don't know what this guy's criteria for stupid is but that sounds like people are pretty fucking stupid to me.

It's not the free fall that I'm worried about. It's what comes after.

Seconded, though I would advise getting the DLC after completing the main game.