Sure.

But once you boil down absolutely any physical effect… gravity, light, sound, (literally everything) you eventually get to that point.

The answer to any “why”, after a certain number of follow-up “whys” is always always always “we don’t know”, irrespective of the original question.

Magnets aren’t at all special in this regard.

Seymour skinner, when the roast was ruined

Ok, fair, but on the hierarchy of pill-providing Muppet doctors, Dr. Teeth is at the top.

The only millennial reboot I’ve seen work is really more of a genX reboot anyways: beavis and butthead.

Yeah, either of those helps. I agree it’s comprehensible.

Comprehensibility isn’t what defines a sentence fragment. I make this observation out of pure awe, rather than criticism. Modern day Cicero vibes.

That first “sentence” is the longest sentence fragment I’ve ever seen in my life.

I also heard it as a light jab at his age

Albertans are statistically more likely to vote for a provincial NDP candidate than a British Columbian is.

About 6 months ago I started tariffing things and people just in every day speech. Kid won’t eat his vegetables? Tariff. 5%. Keep it up, see how it goes, buddy. Water cooler empty at work? That’s a 10% tariff MINIMUM.

It sucks when your crafted absurdity has such a short shelf life because reality seems intent on anexing it.

I appreciate the sanity check, but just to throw a monkey wrench into your model…

I think the square-cube law will bite you here. I expect power/mass isn’t constant. Mass grows faster than cross-sectional area which is key in muscle performance.

I guess the part I don’t understand what you’re trying to assert re: time since “industrialization” vs wealth inequality.

Are you saying industrialization is responsible for lowering inequality or creating it?

If you’re suggesting it creates inequality, then I would expect Europe to have higher inequality than China. It does not.

If you are suggesting it reduces inequality, then I would expect China’s wealth inequality to be trending downwards since the 70s. It is not. It has risen sharply in that time frame.

I’m still assuming that I’m just misunderstanding your hypothesis… so I guess my question would just be:

What do you hypothesize the process of industrialization does to weath distribution?

Can you elaborate?

I’m my professional experience working with both, Java shops don’t blindly enforce this, but c# shops tend to.

Striving for loosely coupled classes is objectively a good thing. Using dogmatic enforcement of interfaces even for single implementors is a sledgehammer to pound a finishing nail.

Whoever is demanding every class be an implementation of an interface started thier career in C#, guaranteed.

All good, we can agree to disagree. I think your objections are reasonable, but I don’t think they’re unmanageable. I think the line between military and civilian is A line to subdivide things, but I think public vs private is a better one. As well, expanded military spending to hit Trumps new unilateral benchmarks (which is happening) doesn’t necessarily demand a larger instantaiously deployable force. Resources could be earmarked to not leave massive gaps in other civil services. If it has to happen, still fine, dovetailing military out of those roles and backfilling with civilians (even transitioning through reserves) has a shorter turnaround time and more manageable than finding and training more recruits or god forbid a draft.

Anyhow, again, fine to agree to disagree. I hear your stated objections and agree they’re valid… I think where we disagree is on if they’re insurmountable or not.

The military does have a critical function to fulfill, no doubt.

That being said, I’ve personally lived this. Many years ago, I worked with a military contractor. We periodically needed to service equipment in very remote areas. Depending on the conditions we could either get there on our own steam, or depending on the equipment, hire civilian helicopters to get us there.

BUT, from time to time, our goals and military helicopter training goals would align. We and our equipment would stand in for whatever people and equipment the scenario was. In those cases, we’d hitch a ride. It was an absolute win-win.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking suggesting having postal workers going door to door strapped with a C7. And I recognize that it could slippery-slope where training objectives are compromised for business objectives.

BUT, there are real cases where collaboration could exist within the public sector. Search and rescue and medical transport are really low hanging fruit. The postal system has opportunities too, I’m sure of it.

Not sure how serious you are…

But actually, yes, just not how you have described it.

A significant amount of what a military does is simply logistics. Basically what Canada Post is, is a logistics machine.

The military is important to have. Envisioning a synergy between the military apparatus and providing civil services is something we should seriously be considering. The military should be topping up pilot flight hours with medical helicopter transport. The military should be augmenting resource delivery to remote communities. The military should be involved in postal logistics.

I disagree that it’s the only correct take.

The argument is “Data may cause people to behave in ways I don’t want them to, so I will assail the data to guide people to behaviors I do want.”

Like, I can understand and respect your position, but I don’t think it’s the only correct take.

I think that the structure of your argument is also used broadly by many groups to do terrible things. One can debate the merits of fighting fire with fire, but let’s at least do so with complete awareness.

My roommate had a butterfly knife in his room and I wanted to play with it. I was drunk and my hands were greasy from eating KFC.

It slipped (more like threw it at the ground) due to incompetence and impairment and greasy KFC hands. I didn’t want it to get mashed on the ground so I used my lighting fast reflexes to catch a knife I just threw. Point first. Into my palm. My greasy drunk palm.

Cleaned up the evidence as best I could. Put it back. Should 100% have gone to get it stitched up, but didn’t, and ended up with some nerve damage and scar tissue crowding some tendons.

I haven’t really retold this story in a long time. As I’m typing this…

Kids certainly have the capacity.

Windows 3.1 had some BASIC games that you could run. A snake game and one where monkeys threw bananas at each other. It was a great “fuck around and find out” platform. I could write simple programs from scratch well before 10, learning entirely through experimentation.