Comment Re:Society Expands Up to Constraints of the System (Score 1) 452
Space also grows, since the Universe is expanding.
So you have plants that can live in space?
I welcome our new survialist plant overlords, who laugh in the face of physics!
Space also grows, since the Universe is expanding.
So you have plants that can live in space?
I welcome our new survialist plant overlords, who laugh in the face of physics!
Science can tell you how to create a bomb that will kill lots of people.
It also tells you how to cure millions of people of fatal diseases. (Alas, science is more likely to tell you why a bomb constructed in such a way has this explosive power. Formulas derived from observation don't do any harm.)
Religion can try to tell you whether or not creating such a bomb is a good idea.
Sorry, that's ethics, not religion. Religion is organized spirituality, which in itself has nothing to do with ethics. If a text says that's bad and this is good because deity X said so, it's a text about ethics. Whether the reason's any good is questionable at best...
In fact, I would suggest that it would be beneficial to everybody to spend at least an hour or so every so often reading some really great poetry (John Donne comes uppermost in my mind, but whatever rocks one's boat). And no, I don't mean as part of any school curriculum (unless you want to): if it isn't done for "fun", there is absolutely no point in it.
Yeah, what about also using a fuckton of loanwords? Vous me pourriez donner salem, please? Just the same as ``Could you please hand me the salt?'' (with the possible grammatical exception of wrong French, because French's a shitty language), but much harder to understand for average Joe, because that's 3 fucking languages in one fucking sentence. (Be happy that it's short enough for me not to use German, because then I'd have made that sentence run a paragraph.) Having a big vocabulary is all great 'n stuff, but it doesn't score with anyone who wants to understand you without using a fucking dictionary.
Oh, and did you notice how common forms of the word `fuck' are? `Fuck''s a fucking useful word, y'know, and people want to fucking censor it, even though it's probably the only word which is understood by pretty much anyone on the fucking planet.
[...] Germany was rather libertarian [...]
Ha! I didn't read such a good joke since
Anyway, Germans were always fuckin' damned conservative, especially those in power even after WWI and the `revolution' (Ah, that was the joke!) which brought forth the Weimar Republic. Just to give you an example: Say you're voting the KPD (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands; English: Communist Party of Germany), and you would've been shot by almost any guy from the Reichswehr back then, as communists back then were pretty much the practice targets for them.
a racist/nazi in germany has a shaved head wearing boots and a bomber jacket. --- see the similarity to "how to recognize a jew" back in the NS days? nothing changed in germany. try it out yourself with only having 3mm hair length... ppl will look at you like you just ate a baby while the german government is taking a fascistoid(?) path... without anyone noticing...
These are called skinheads. And the conservative Germans ain't be liking the funky-punky skinheads, 'cause for them anything left of the conservative parties (CDU/CSU, von der Leyen, the minister who's behind the bullshit this time, is of the former) is a vile, authority-defying scumbag who should be thoroughly disciplined. But see '68 and the responses from German profs.
If mathematically you end up with the wrong answer, try multiplying by the page number.