Well said!

I can't wait for McDonalds to roll out their new ultra-fast McClinic! I could get a Grimmace meal and a $1 prostate exam at the same time.

Lol, your characterization of religious moral education is pretty naive. The fact is that we all have ideas about right and wrong, and ethics explores the deployment of such ideas, but can do little to really explain the ground of such claims. Religious morality sees right and wrong as grounded in a fundamental reality, i.e. a relationship between God and the world (a relationship which Christianity sees as love; legalism is not the real basis of right and wrong, contrary to what people often think). Even when people agree on right and wrong in general, however, there are often difficult questions of the actual application of such principles to real situations. Hence even though like-minded Christians would agree that stealing is wrong, they can debate whether it is stealing when a poor person takes food that is needed to live. Good and evil are cut and dry, but moral living is a complicated dance. The function of religious education by and large is not to tell people what is right and wrong (these things are often already clear fundamentals of our belief) but to help people to constructively and consistently implement their beliefs into action practice. If someone attends a Catholic moral theology course and does not agree, for example, that abortion is wrong, they won't be shouted down or forced to leave. Instead, they would be invited to consider more deeply why they believe what they believe, why others believe differently, and what practical consequences such views entail. Only through careful and open-minded guidance can someone's heart actually be changed. Morality requires a genuine conversion of heart in order to make a difference.

There's different versions of the Vulgate, so I could be wrong, but I don't think Jerome used "malum" (apple) either. Jerome was a linguist and in many ways he tended toward a kind of literalism; some of his oddities and mistakes, for example, really have to do with him taking the text too literally rather than playing with the words. I believe the idea of the fruit as an apple simply slipped into medieval imagination through visual depictions and dramatizations. It's not as though intellectuals ever thought the fruit was indeed an apple. It's just that, if you're going to depict it, what fruit do you use? I vaguely remember some early depictions using pomegranates, for example. But the apple was probably chosen by Europeans both for the amusing play on words and for the fact that it was a commonly-known tree-born fruit.

Thanks! I was wondering why people say not to drink distilled water.

So, how does one measure a single entangled particle and know that one is measuring a single particle?

Haha, maybe because someone found that offensive: https://m.slashdot.org/story/3...

I despise drug ads in general and agree that one should not trust the TV for medical advice. But on the other hand, there are so many drugs out there that in some cases it helps to know the name of a med to ask the doctor about it. In my experience, sometimes just being able to ask about a med can make a huge positive difference. The doc might say it's a bad idea or a good idea, but at least it gets the conversation started.

A mixture is not a subset. A set is not a mixture. In everyday speech we might say, "I have a set/mix of red and green jellybeans," but ordinary speech is not strict. For example, in math a mixture would be analogous to the multiplication of numbers, e.g. 7 Ã-- 2 = 14. The result is 14; 7 and 2 are only "contained" indirectly, as factors. In contrast, a set would contain 7 and 2 but not 14. Logically, what applies to a mixture might not apply to its ingredients. Logically, what applies to a set is merely abstracted from its ingredients.

Self-preservation vs. selfishness? Well, an animal's instinct toward self-preservation often leads some individuals to sacrifice something for the greater population. Hence the maternal and paternal instincts are in a sense an extension of self-preservation. The individual does not have grand ideas about seeing its grandkids, but it feels on instinct that it must breed jn order to fulfill its own life. In contrast, freezing one's corpse so posternity can pretend that you're still revivable is not beneficial for others--heck, it's not even beneficial for oneself! People do it out of a morbid fear of death. Unlike the surival instinct, it has no evolutionary value. That isn't self-preservation. It's selfishness all the way.

Interesting. This makes me think that this would only work for certain modern applications. The presence of rebar might not work alongside the self-healing concrete, for example. Also, might there be unforeseen reactions between the concrete and other nearby substances, such as asphalt? Perhaps the best applications would be residential, e.g. concrete slabs, concrete pillars under decks, and concrete anchoring for fences?

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. It's nice to see complex data gathering being used for something useful, rather than just targeted ads and image generators.

I don't dispute that the Republicans often lie, but you should read the source of your Guardian article and see for yourself that the left-wing is just as deceptive: https://www.kansascity.com/new...

The Guardian says, "Missouri is keeping binders full of women’s menstrual cycles." In truth, it was a spreadsheet--you know, digital. But "binders" sounds so much more dystopian. The spreadsheet was for a specific information-gathering purpose, so it's not necessarily something being actively expanded. It contained no patients' names, and the last menstrual cycle dates were not recorded from observation but merely calculated (i.e. probably based upon the due date). So in other words what they really had was the due date minus 9 months, which is not an accurate date of menstruation but merely a very rough figure. The menstrual date was clearly not the most important bit of information, but I'm guessing that it was included simply because the health director was an OBGYN and was used to considering this a basic piece of information. Lastly and most importantly, the purpose of the data had nothing to do with tracking the women in question. Rather, it was meant to investigate Planned Parenthood's deceptive coverups of failed and repeated abortions. Rather than providing their patients with full information--women who know what they are getting into are too likely to tell them no--Planned Parenthood avoids transparency as much as possible. In this case, they used temporary doctors so they could avoid having them talk to the government about the evidence of covered-up failed abortions.

Let's put this into perspective. Imagine that a hospital has a history of botched surgeries. They cover it up by having their patients come back in, giving them drugs, and providing an evasive explanation for what went wrong. The government hears about it and tries to investigate, but the hospital says all of their doctors have gone back to Ghana and can't talk. What would the government investigators do? For one thing, they would compile a spreadsheet of data about known or suspected cases, while keeping that data as anonymous as possible. In other words, they would do exactly what they did in this case.

Like everything Zuck does, thus seems like complete stupidity. He blewï¼11 billion on his lame, legless metaverse, and yet therebisn't even an app for watching Facebook livestreams on Roku. He will continue to blow money on fantasies, and yet he's ditching an actual working product. I don't gave a portal and I hate Facebook, but I do think the heavily-advertised product had a chance to be significant. Ditching it at this point is a waste.