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庄子与惠子游于濠梁之上。庄子曰：“鲦鱼出游从容，是鱼之乐也。”惠子曰：“子非鱼，安知鱼之乐？”庄子曰：“子非我，安知我不知鱼之乐？”惠子曰：“我非子，固不知子矣；子固非鱼也，子之不知鱼之乐，全矣！”庄子曰：“请循其本。子曰‘汝安知鱼乐’云者，既已知吾知之而问我。我知之濠上也。[1]
A rough translation:
A: Wow, look at the way the fishes are swimming! They must be happy!
B: You are not the fishes, how do you know that they are happy?
A: You are not me, how do you know that I don't know that I know that the fishes are happy?
B: I am not you, so I can't understand you; but you aren't the fishes, so you can't tell if they are happy or not. That makes sense.
A: Let's go back to the original premise. You are asking me "How do you know that they are happy", implying that you know that I know that they are happy. As to how I know, I know it because I am looking at the fishes right here and right now.
This is an excerpt from an actual Chinese classic, and it is written into the textbook. Happy or sad, this excerpt isn't meant to teach how semantical K's work.
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Think about it.
Neuralink can connect our nervous system to the internet, without us being dead or replaced. We can play songs just by thinking about it, and apes can play simple video games with their mind.
What if the same technology is being used on birds? They can fly around just like usual except everything they see can be transcribed on a computer(likely first a code, but it won’t be distant for somebody to convert nervous signal to images), thus making birds government drones just by flying around minding their own lives.
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The following is to be considered as a joke but nevertheless actually happened for some reason.
Background
Okay, so you know I am a pretty marginal figure in school, and the people who live with me at the dorms pretty much stronger than me in every way except maybe the usage of logical thinking. They have decided that I cannot poop in the school dorms even if they are asleep because "it smells bad". When I sneak into the bathroom at about 11:00 PM, the guy who proposed it suddenly woke up and stopped me. When I kept deciding on that I should have the freedom of pooping in the dormitory, he kicked me near the nuts. It was at this moment that I think that this guy is equivalent to a wall titan in intelligence and reasoning with him means nearly nothing.
Other than a few discussions in Chinese Language Arts class(I am in a school in China in which I cannot get access to freeflow forms of communication with the outside from Mon-Fri usually), I rarely engage in logical thinking during the weeks. It was at this moment that my logical thinking awakened. Immediately I read "The Inevitable" by KK(Because a normal one will always keep the eyes on somethings they would not have -- Internet) and suddenly came up with 5 approaches to prove why I should be able to poop in there.
The person is to be called T as no personal information of anyone should be leaked here.
These are to be agreed on as these are basically true and I can confirm that what I am saying is true:
- By that time, I have gone a full 4 days without pooping, which is considered unhealthy according to medical standards[1]
- The sleeping sector of a dorm room is separated from the bathroom sector via a door
- I have pooped in the same dorm room for at least 10 times before this occurrence, with T being here not minding it at all
- T and other people have pooped in the same location with no one minding it
- There is a toilet in the bathroom but not a urinal
- No other places have allowed me to poop there
- The original proposition is to be phrased as "The person known as Intel_06 must not defecate within this room" while we were sleeping on our dorm beds
Method 1: Moral Kritik
This is the most obvious one on this list, as generally nobody likes being stripped of doing something they would consider normal to do in their everyday life. a middle-class teenager who can go to their home and play PUBG every night in his family's 2-storey house with 2 bathrooms shouldn't be restricted to do such a thing. The syllogism should be paraphrased as:
- It is generally established that pooping is a normal thing that everyone does and should be able to do at a toilet
- T has restricted me from pooping in a toilet
- Therefore, T has restricted me from doing a normal exercise of normal people.
- Stripping the rights of someone doing a normal exercise is selfish and has violated that someone's personal rights, and that is immoral
- T has done so
- Therefore, T is selfish, has violated my personal rights, and he is to be considered as immoral.
More will come next, do not post yet.
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Why does anyone oppose free healthcare? It literally saves the lives of more people.
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It has been 1 year on this site. I have learned a lot in this year.
I have gone from a newbie who thinks he is powerful from DDO, to the second-last active debater ever, to 1470, starting a new account, climbed to the top 5 at speeds only Undefeatable would have rivaled, then settled around 10th place.
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A German teenager was recruited to send newspaper in Nazi Germany in the 30’s. Every morning, he would send propaganda newspaper to every household and directly mislead the masses. He worked harder than all other people of the same job and he didn’t know that he is working for the devil. Should he be punished for doing what he has done?
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A group of users are currently arguing the same 3 topics over and over again. Some arguments took them only a single minute to write. It is starting to fill up the front page of debating. What is going on?
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The game is simple: you have to continue the discussion, preferably from where the last person left off, in a constructive way. Spamming is reported.
I will start the first topic for discussion: Should the minimum wage be raised?
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If there are 6 people that are absolute failures with no achievements on one side of the track and there is one super scientist on the other, where do you control the trolley to go?
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I have not done an AMA in all the time that I have been on this site because I am too busy winning debates. Then came school which just came to a stop as Spring break begins today. You can ask me anything.
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Make yourself cook and you are a chef. Make other people cook and you are a boss. Make a made machine cook and you are an inventor.
The lazy people who don’t want to cook but has the energy to go play with iron pieces are hence inventors. If everyone has the energy to do basic things, maybe there won’t even be cars around I suppose.
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When I was 6, I began playing piano. Piano sounds normal, and what writes a C sounds like a C.
After going into middle school, the band teacher decided that I was good with Trumpet. The kind of trumpet I have played(so did most people) were keyed Bb, meaning if I blow into the instrument with the fingering they told me corresponds to the note C, it would rather sound like a Bb. At first nobody knew what I did, and I always read my piece as if it is written for piano, note to score. In the end of the first year, I have learned to play the piece I am supposed to play two semitones than what it is intended.
So I began to completely disregard my scores. I merely looked at it and said, “oh, I start at the first section, stop at the second, etc. and left it in the folder for the rest of the semester. Instead I looked up recordings of that song and at the end it turned out good enough for the recital.
Yep, I learned to play an entire piece by recordings alone because the music scores look strange. In fact if you give me a trumpet piece now, I would probably tell you that this piece is keyed wrongly.
I wanted to start a topic saying “All instruments in an orchestra should be in the same key” and the only thing stopping it would probably be an appeal to tradition.
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There is nothing else to say, I guess. I won't let some religious arguer take this lot questioning authority and not acknowledge that this is what it actually is.
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Personally I prefer Biden. He is someone China can take seriously. Trump is bad to the US and we don't know if China will profit or lose from it.
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You have Mercedes out in front claiming nearly every race, then you have Renault on the midfield doing pretty good, and you have Williams struggling to get a single point. This hierarchy is determined by capitalism, because the better team gets more money than the worse team. The better you are, the more money you have, the better you can be, vice versa. Hierarchy exists and an occasional “proletariat hero” is extremely rare.
There are pay drivers. For those back markers they need money, and hiring one rich dude who can barely drive means saving their company. It became determined that how “good” you are is determined by your car, not yourselves. Lando Norris is here getting podiums and his colleague who performed better than him in 2018 in F2 is struggling to get any points at all, because the former got a good car and the latter got the worst.
In F2 all cars are equal(same brand, same engine) and there you can find the better driver. The better driver is better regardless of how bad the car is. We have examples upon examples for F2 talents getting shitboxes then decide to leave because they are treated unfairly.
Ah, capitalism.
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I don't wanna necrobump anymore threads, so why not just make a new one.
I hope this thread never needs any necrobumps in the future.
I will start with 1 meme.
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I am afraid if we will be compared to a garbage bin or an orange in the future while being human. Yes, egalitarianism can go overboard.
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Disclaimer: The contents below are completely satirical and nothing below should be taken seriously. Nothing here is forcefully offensive, and if you consider so, you are likely incorrect due to that nothing here is intentionally offensive and harmful in any way. Things presented here may or may not represent my beliefs regardless of that I wrote them. Things may or may not be accurate, mostly the latter.
On The Bullseye 11/01/2020 Edited by: Intelligence_06
You are looking at the main competitor of SirAnonymous' DARTBard, except, things here will always be more realistic, more reliable, and more anonymous than DART Bard.
“No Nut November” Begins, Unemployment Increases!
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The internet movement named “No Nut November” is scheduled tobegin in November 1st, as opposed to other real-world movements which are majorly delayed by the coronavirus. The goal of this abomination they call a movement is to make as little nut as possible. This, however is impossible, as that nuts are a very special type of food, essential to many, and enjoyable for more. The consumption of Peanuts is just over 7 pounds per year per capita, minus those who are not people and are not peanuts.
Seeing how widespread the internet is, the Union of Nut Workers within this country have decided to quit and reclaim the means of production of nut-related products in December 1st, 2020. This is extremely critical as nut-related products are into the essential production of thousands, or even millions of companies within this world. It is being predicted that after November 15th, 50% of the functioning bodies of the economy would no longer function until December 5th, 2022, due to that the lack of nut-related products would stall the production of other companies, causing those companies which supplies other essential companies to be utterly bankrupt. The recovery needed would be long.
It is seen for the very first time that reactions this widespread is upon the society when a single joke about nuts is said in theparty. One teenager named “Deez Nuts” ran for the president(And I hope he would again, seeing how stupid this one is) in 2016, but the essentials of the world have only passed it as a joke until this year. The Proletariat movement isreal, and it probably should not be. This would be equivalent of the revolution of 50% of the population all believing the plagued socialism within this world in 1500, all caused by a single light-hearted joke. Short answer: We are doomed. Even if you have military bunkers under your flags you would at least not being fed with peanuts unless they are stale in your storage possibly stank with body fluids. This, in the end, will cause either ultimate equality orultimate inequality as either only the filthy damn rich people will survive orthat the poor will also survive, but are stripped of everything except their poverty, not being able to grow crops because those Hoppeans physically removed all crops containing nuts for 30 days with those loud, glorious military choppers imported from the United States to the world. You can establish everything you want to say, but Big Brother is watching you and you have a 50% chance of being sent to labor camps regardless if you are guilty of any crimes.
DART Bard Deemed to be Nonsense by Experts All Around the World
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The recent addition of DART Bard received positive reviews bythe citizens who know nothing about the truths of this world. However, howwould the experts look at this?
&! &$$ &!!!$, a &^^^*& expert of newspaper, who understands zero earth languages, looked upon the newest issue of DARTBard, and said the words of wisdom, “(sorry, we could not transcribe what he said)”, translated “This is a motherf**king turd of f**king bulls**t!”.
Firstname Lastname, a revered professor of journalism graduatedfrom College University has also shown resentment to the newest addition of DARTBard, a response he would usually express when presented with extreme irrationality.
God, who is a genius schooled at home, has physically removed the latest copy shown to both personnels above. The copy we see now is actually a fake copy of the original DART Bard issue. It is unknown who has remade thecopy, possibly Dr. Trum Porter Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr., but the new copy has received positive reviews from all three people above, shockingly, especially since the contents are identical to each other.
Centre-Anticentrism is Almost Obsolete
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Pew Research Center have recently claimed that 1 person supports Centre-anticentrism. That is a monumental achievement for thistotally-compatible ideology for the world to use! On that 1,000,000 dollars are spent on behalf of the opposing parties, authoritarian or libertarian, left orright, the 1 loyal supporter of Centre-anticentrism remained loyal and have built his government in the town. Sadly, the town that 1 man governs have all 100% of its citizen dropping 100% negative reviews on said ideology, and that the town is dropping from the #1 productive town to the #1 least productive town due to 100% of the forces being used to enforce this totally-compatible ideology instead of complying with capitalism, the second-greatest evil of ourtimes, the first being communism.
But first, we need to understand what Centre-anticentrism is. Centre-anticentrism first appeared on the internet as a joke, and the way it works is that the supporters of this ideology always claim the status quo by changing it. In other words, it is a subjectively centre, objectively random ideology, never the same one day in and another day out. The 1 person who supports thistotally-compatible ideology have shown to believe in Woman Power one day despite being male and have a history of joining the KKK(In which he joined it for 0.5 hours before being kicked out for supporting only Black individuals).
It is entirely concerning of how this totally-compatible ideology became almost obsolete, having one supporter at the peaks and 0 at thelowest days. We should support it so it could rule the world one day.
Rapping Quality is Dropping Drastically
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Rap is the music for those who can’t sing. For an obviously inferior form of art compared to normal music, it is normal for it to drop drastically in quality. However, we must also look at HOW it is dropping qualities because we should be able to get some laughs watching people whodon’t listen repeatedly trip their feet on thin air.
Let’s not just compare the contemporary raps with ones in the golden age(in which there is no rap at all, so golden!), but with those 20-30years ago in the 1990s. A good example of rap in the 1990s is this song. I wouldn't need to recite the title for you to know which song I am talking about. Such a classic!
“Who let the dogs out? Woof, woof, woof, woof. Who let the dogs out? Woof, woof, woof, woof. Who let the dogs out? Woof, woof, woof, woof” Such insight! Such criticism of the authority, in that the society can’t even keepthe canines in the places they are supposed to go. Why are dogs granted the rights of being in the Human world?
Now, let’stalk about raps as disastrous as this year, made this year. It is as if the kind of guy who made this song is so savage they devolved and returned to monkey.
“I'm a savage, yeah(Okay). Classy, bougie, ratchet, yeah. (Okay) Sassy, moody, nasty, yeah. (Hey, hey, nasty) Acting stupid, what's happening? (Woah, woah, woah, whats happening?) Bitch, what's happening? (Woah, woah, okay)” Woah, what the hell is this? Let me get some brains and come back later.
What kind of rap is this? Swearing is overused, Onomatopoeia are overused, and it advocates for a lifestyle that is synonymous with anarcho-primitivism, but instead of being primitive in society, it is savages in modern society. How on the planet earth could we tolerate this? Rap qualities have obviously devolved so much that people are acting like they are stupid, no, they ARE stupid! The music of the inferior are plaguing themselves,and if they don’t stop, even we will be infected! #RapsRBad!
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Disclaimer: The contents below are completely satirical and nothing below should be taken seriously. Nothing here is forcefully offensive, and if you consider so, you are likely incorrect due to that nothing here is intentionally offensive and harmful in any way. Things presented here may or may not represent my beliefs regardless of that I wrote them. Things may or may not be accurate, mostly the latter.
On The Bullseye 10/31/2020
On The Bullseye 10/31/2020
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You are looking at the main competitor of SirAnonymous' DART Bard, except, things here will always be more realistic, more reliable, and more anonymous than DART Bard.
Riots Endure Whilst the Spooky Bell Rings, Pumpkin Insurance Peaks!
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As the Bell of October 31th Rang, The protesters on the streets of [REDACTED] are chanting harder, for both the Black lives and the festives of Halloween. Protesters, looking like actual clowns real in and real out, are jumping left and right on the streets looking like lunatics, probably because their pumpkin helmets do not have any carvings in it and they cannot see anything in it. Liberal gun owners who are bloodthirsty of shooting black cops in the face are seeing literally nothing at all, and the unmanned drones put by the Chinese government within the US Government, which are also controlled by clowns in impractical camouflages in a control room, are shot down by said liberal gun owners in an attempt of enforcing self-defense.
Pumpkin Farm Insurance Inc. is now getting a ton load of money, due to those protesters that don't look like stupid lunatics in pumpkin helmets have actual brains and are looting thousands upon thousands of pumpkins from stores all over the city. Pumpkin Farm Insurance Inc. is a company based in the state of [REDACTED], and its sole purpose is to give insurance on pumpkin-related products. The United States based incorporation usually get 10,000% the normal income rate before Halloween due to the abundance of pumpkin-related products. That, however, is not like this year, as usually 1,000 pumpkins get stolen each year. The Incorporation grows 130,000,000,000 pumpkins in each year and have their barns being completely stale. Upon the last 10 minutes, the incorporation got 10 times the average annual income due to that 10,000 pumpkins are getting stolen every minute in the United States, upon that 99% of the incidents are currently happening in [REDACTED]. The stock of Pumpkin Farm Insurance Inc. is rising by 1000% from today compared to yesterday.
The government of the United States are ordering all services in the United States to shut down Halloween services but none listened whatsoever. Loots are still happening and it is getting no less intense, if not more. Liberals accused Pumpkin Farm Insurance Inc. of treason due to the huge increase of money, but they are found innocent of that crime due to that said liberals are stealing pumpkins, fueling the "treason" that is completely just.
Intelligence_06 Get Caught Trying to Accuse SirAnonymous of Fraud
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"On The Bullseye" tried to hand in an issue to the public with the main contents of accusing the figure SirAnonymous of fraud and fabrication of entities yesterday. Intelligence_06, the central figure of yesterday's article, have claimed that figures are purely fabricated due to that there is "No one" named Trum Porter and similar claims, thus claiming a completely separate individual of fraud.
Investigations found that there are 270,000 people named Trum Porter in just the state of [REDACTED], thus rendering Intelligence's claim false. SirAnonymous is a law-abiding citizen living in the state of [REDACTED], and he is involved in no crimes. The newspaper issued yesterday is quickly deleted and people who have seen it is handed amnesiacs that made their minds to be as primitive as the average newborn.
Intelligence is found guilty yesterday at 09:20 PM, deported to [REDACTED]. It is unknown how Intelligence is handling this article as he is denied of all electronic services.
DebateArt.com is Dead, Claims Nobody
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Yep, Debateart.com is not dead at all! On The Bullseye is first issued there, and people are all happy. Religious people are religious and atheists are atheist. Conservatives are conservative and liberals are liberal. Males are masculine and females are feminine. Debaters debate and forum posters post forums. It is just like anything you see in the plain day, except that there is On The Bullseye.
I have no clue how no one is in charge of this section but there is still content here, but y'all are dirty hackers looking at this for free. This originally costed $10,000 and y'all are freeloading. How do I see $0 in the income box yet 5,000 people looking at this otherwise?
People are People, Says Experts on this Topic
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Due to that we have nothing else to report, we will report something so meaningless it is actually interesting.
Experts from all 193 nations of the world claim that People can no longer be classified as people, however none of those "experts" can have a say on this topic due to that when asked of what "People" are, no one offers anything at all. Other experts claim that people are still indeed people, only 2 of them, but because two is bigger than 193, we will have to use that as everything.
In conclusion, people are still people. Wait, are they? No they are not, are they? Wait, they are, aren't they? Wait, they aren't, are they? Wait, they are, aren't they? Wait, they aren't, are they? Wait, they are, aren't they? Wait, they aren't, are they? Whatever. I lost the ability to speak and possibly typing. Goodbye people as I see you in the next issue.
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We used to strive to develop a means of aviation in which after it became the technology known as planes, the whole thing is to make a wood plank(or a bar of steel, etc) to upwards from thin air. Yes, we have them.
Now, we have land structures expanding thousands of acres just for these. We have planes, made by people, for the people, controlled by people. We have tens of thousands of airports in use, for just these machines. We have special facilities for those, and we even have them fitted in missiles and gun pellets to use in war.
That is just one. We used to develop a way so wheels on the bus can go round and round itself. We do, and it is called "cars". Nowadays, there are roads everywhere. Cars, they are, everywhere. It is baffling of how widespread some of the technologies are. Just that lots upon lots upon lots of technology is made relevant just to be in advision of one extremely simple concept.
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The place you go to be trained like man-robots so you don't get killed by other people trained like man-robots from other places.
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Let’s say the government is fine, then why seek “freedom” if nothing is supporting you?
If the government is corrupt, then I think you want people to govern itself, in this case, is it still an “anarchy”?
There is no authority to suppress them in anarchy but there is also nothing to support them. Every man for himself. In an anarchy one could get assaulted, murdered, raided, etc. Why would anything want that? More than that, why do some “anarchists” support something that isn’t even anarchy?
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First, there will never be ultimate proof of whether God exists or not. The argument for God is powered on faith, and even then, you could not say that your god is the right one. Now we have a couple of religions, each one saying that their god is the correct one, so to speak: Whatever I believe, it becomes the correct one? How to prove it?
If we are believing in the wrong God, then we are just making him madder and madder each day.
I want the religious to prove why their god is correct.
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Hands down the best Singleplayer Open-world game. Skyrim is debatable, but I think Breath of the Wild is better. Others are just inferior.
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Suppose if there is a bird, it could fly thousands of miles, across the Pacific Ocean, and what it needs is a single tree branch. When flying in the air, the bird will carry the branch by mouth, and when it is tired of flying, it puts the branch on the ocean, and rest on it. While hungry, the bird may hunt for fishes on the branch, and sleep on the branch if tired.
Who would have thought, the bird have successfully crossed the ocean, with only a single tree branch at hand. How did the bird do that?
If the bird carried the entire property of the nest, the eggs, the food --- Then is it even possible for the same bird to perform such a feat anymore?
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As a student studying STEM, I am literally petrified seeing this prompt.
I want to slap people! I want to slap the teacher who gave this prompt, on behalf of my Physics teacher.
For a bird, to cross the Pacific with a single branch within its mouth --- What kind of obscure IQ can make up this story? I have no idea how strong and magical is the bird beloging to the prompt-giving teacher. For a normal person I must be skeptical about this topic. I don't care personally, about how a bird with a branch in its mouth would deal with its mate; I don't care personally, about how a bird that doesn't swim can merely using a branch as a step to catch fishes with; I also don't care personally, about whether if the waves in the ocean will flip the branch or anything. I just want to ask you all one question:
How big must the branch be to support a bird afloat on the water? How big? As thin as a metal wire? As thick as a chopstick?
I want to teach you a equation about buoyancy, the slap-needing prompt-giving teacher. If you want a piece of wood to support a bird on the water, then this equation must be followed (For respect to your IQ, I will not be using any symbols or letters):
Wood's gravitational pressure - Wood's gravity + Bird's gravitational pressure
Let's just imagine if the wood is used to its maximum and it is just completely stepped underwater by the bird, Then we can get this:
Water's density * Wood's volume * Gravitational constant - Wood's density * Wood's volume * Gravitational constant + Bird's mass * Gravitational constant
Combining like terms and thus simplifying the expression, we get:
Wood's volume * (Water's density - Wood's density - Bird's mass) (Intel_06 Comment: I have no idea how he got this one.)
Water's density is about 1000kg/m3, and wood's density is between 400-750kg/m3. Let's just contemplate if the bird is smart enough to find a light enough wood, so we will calculate with 500kg/m3 for this one.
We have: Bird's mass/Wood's volume=500kg/m3
And to simply say it, it is this we will get:
If the bird is 1kg in mass, then
Wood's mass=1/500m3=0.002m3=2dm3
What is the concept of 2dm3? About two regular bricks.
What is the concept of an 1kg bird? Well, the normal hen is 3-4 pounds, it is only a little chick that is 1kg. Can a chick possibly pick up two bricks or an arm-width stick? Even if it could, the wind resistance would blow the two to Atlantic, not Pacific.
The prompt-giver could also say the bird is bigger. Well, bigger birds are heavier! It will then not be two bricks, instead a full-on pillar.
So in conclusion, Science tells us, no matter what bird, none will choose to use a wood branch to travel across the Pacific. If they are destined to do so --- It is a stupid one, one stupid enough to get eaten by fishes drowned in the ocean. For the supposed rationality built upon this story of stupid birds, only stupid birds will believe.
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I think it is beneficial. The entire society is rid of conflict because everyone is in harmony, does anyone oppose to this idea?
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Atheists, stop nitpicking the bible ridiculously; theists, stop interpreting the Bible so literally.
I did the coronavirus test in the nearby clinic. As I am not in the country that my passport is registered in, I would need to send my results to the embassy and wait for the result. That being said, it is a difficult journey. I have not been active for full hours one because of sleep but also because of days of traveling in 1-hr trips between my house and the clinic.
The embassy has a "rule", in which the coronavirus test must be submitted there within 12 hours of the result being undisclosed. My parents got it with an easy procedure, but I would have to have something more difficult in order to just get my result.
When I am back, it is already over 12 hours since the result is clear. I tried to submit the result out of desperation, and the embassy verified the result despite it is outside of the 12 hour range.
What does this tell us? Rules sometimes just make you better, it is not 100% black and white.
For example, the Bible tell us to not have sex before marriage, not watch pornography, and not commit adultery. With common sense, of course, you could do those, but they could potentially make you less loyal in a commited relationship, which makes you a less trustworthy person.
For another example, the Bible tells us not to eat shrimp or pork, but that is just because they have yet to have a procedure to make them as clean as other kinds of food, and since the Bible is basically an engraved book, it could not live long enough to see when the FDA can make pork and shrimp as healthy and clean. In other words, at the time the bible is written, those foods are unclean, which, if you eat it, will make you sick, thus live a subpar life.
Another example is that swearing or insulting is bad. It is? Yes, but saying "fuck" one time probably won't land you in hell immediately. The more you swear, the harder it is to people to approach you in a polite manner, which would mean you will live a life without companions. There are rationalities of All things in Theism, some of them outdated, but all of them could be considered at the time they were written with at least an indirect reason.
So BrotherDT, stop interpreting the Bible so literally that when we just eat a kind of food we would go to hell.
So Radical atheists, stop nitpicking the Bible with those rules, you guys have much better stuff to do.
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I thought of this myself. If this already exists please tell me who proposed it initially.
The theory of relativity states: Everything is relative.
So relatively, something could be true and something could be false. Could be seen as true or false depending on the perspective.
Then think: if everything is relative, then the statement "everything is relative" is also relative, meaning it could be false at some point at some perspective, but how could that be?
Conclusion: There must be at least one objective thing. "Everything is relative" is the only objective statement. If more exact, perhaps I should say "Everything is relative, except for this statement".
I am 14 and this is deep. Not that kind of deep, this kind of deep. Wait, deep is relative and it is not the statement, so it could be shallow seen from someone else because everything humans have set up are basically relative and non-objective.
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Read the thing below. You can disagree if you want.
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This is a text-based website, so it is vital to type.
I, for example, types 55-75 RPM on a normal day. What about you guys?
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People are voting for Biden for the sole purpose that Trump deserves not a second term. People literally believe that voting for 3rd party = voting for trump because it is pulling away the biden votes but when asked who the best possible candidate is, their answer is someone that is non-trump and non-biden.
Yes, Biden is not the best president possible(although he is a bit better than the one we have here), but people believe that voting for 3rd party is a waste. If all of them believe that, then we won't get the best president possible. If we all promise to make a change voting for 3rd party, then that they might be a president, maximised goodness. We should not be voting based on who we hate, but who we really want.
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If a game about fictional characters and guessing the bad guys can post more than some of the most controversial topics in belief, then there is something serious going on here.
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This is not Weekly Stupid, Nothing close. Only meaningful ones, such as ones that would be spoken by a successful businessman or a famous philosopher, are allowed here.
I will go first.
Injecting one of knowledge they desire is like putting fuel in the car's tank; Injecting one of knowledge they resist is like putting fuel onto the engine.
There are no rules in life other than that you should make your life as desirable as possible. Every other rule in life originate from this one.
Being alone is only detrimental when you feel lonely, otherwise, it is called Peace of mind.
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As an atheist I find it hard to believe the principles of a 2000 year old book. Why did you guys even go into this religion?
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People are jokingly tagging me on posts. I get every thing that is supposed to be even a little funny but for fun I send back posts that pretends that I had zero clue of what's going on.
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There is something called the NAP.
No...no. Not where you sleep in the middle of the afternoon. It is the Non-aggression policy. The NAP has a philosophy similar to that of traditional religion: If I like something or dislike something, I shouldn't project the idea with force upon another. If I like this thing, I, nevertheless, shouldn't force other people to like it regardless of that they like it or not.
Keeping the idea of the choice of keeping the baby to herself is both pro-life and pro-choice. Such women on such issue would sound like this.
"Yeah, I feel it is a right to women. Like women should be able to choose if they abort the baby or not. Others could easily abort. Me? I won't. My baby means a lot to me and I will probably not abort her, but I respect those who really want an abortion and I believe they have the chance to do it, as well as not do it, just like me right now."
I mean, Pro-life vs pro-choice isn't really pro-abortion and anti-abortion. Being both pro-life and pro-choice means valuing life, but at the same time not shoving your idea up of someone's stomach. It is possible to be both, and being both is not half bad.
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If I do equally as many things as the theist when we both are working, and I am helping the needy when the theist is praying with seemingly no effect, why does he get to go to heaven and I don't?
If Pascal's wager is a sound theory then God is a total jerk. No matter how much good I do to humanity, as long I trust myself to do everything, I go to hell. Isn't this just like Authoritarian Communism? Good things good done, but you criticize me and the punishment is equally as bad as the slacker on the hay.
I can do good things and I can help more people on sundays than the average theist because they don't work on sundays. Having the mentality of helping everything is not bad, or is it?
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This is the kind of thread that will probably get into the HoF but I am ok with it not being in it because it is just a thread and there are thousands of them here.
So Honest trailers is the series on Youtube where everything wrong with the movie/game is comically enlarged to make it really funny. Again, this is the kind of joke I am into and nothing below is of any real grudge and should be taken as only comical roast and relief. Mods, please do not take anything below as a violation of the CoC because it is just a parody of comical relief.
And, everything that is really a part of real content is below. Any "negative comments" are just for comical relief. I repeat, do not take this seriously and to a personal level because I am not trying to bring hate to this site, I am trying to make this site fun.
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From DebateArt.com, the man who honestly have no creativity of naming his account on his own site other than just naming it as the site itself, DebateArt.com is brought to us as currently the only successful attempt in reviving a dead carcass of a site with full of casino advertisements and baseless anti-Trump propaganda.
Embrace the site that is originally planned to be the sole successor of DDO, and then attracted users that would want to have nothing to do with it, even throwing a grudge when mentioning it. Embrace the site that despite working the same as DDO, the ads are replaced by debate flairs that no one would bother clicking on them anyways, even so, afraid of commenting whatsoever. Embrace this site, because You! Can! Finally! Copy! Paste! Links! Without! It! Failing! To! Work!
In front of us is probably a person too smart to argue with their friends and too dumb to get an actual life, too smart for learning but too dumb to get an A on their tests. The site introduces an online world where competitive users had to either list thousands of top secret files begged from the government or to exploit the resolution enough its mutated form can hardly be considered of any kind of fun at all, or to cry in their bed because they aren't successful at anything they have tried. This is a place in which despite being a serious debating site, 0% of the share of this site is actually ran by a professional debater, and where the most vocal members of the discussion pages are either being criticized for being neutral, or being criticized for picking a side, or are criticizing others for those same reasons.
On the top of the leaderboards we have someone claiming to live in Antarctica to avoid face-to-face discourse, a debater that has left and briefly came back to post on maybe two threads, an active moderator, a libertarian teenager who likes to write his arguments like his infographics, and someone who has short outbursts of happiness and rage, hiatuses in between, and nevertheless remains the most contribution member overall on this site. Also, on the leaderboard that probably no one cares about, we have a teenager who posts daily about just anything.
Seriously, he wants to be a mod.
Back to the site. On this site it is anything but a rare occasion that troll topics are argued more thoroughly than serious topics, and where debaters that can actually write usable arguments are placed below the users that has no profile and forfeits everything they accepted the first day. Don't forfeit, guys.
On the forums, there are Three approaches to politics by basically all users: Determine whether Trump is good or bad, the Political compass, and apoliticism completely.
So, be prepared to appear on the site and have more experienced debaters to crush you into pieces and <maybe> learn how to debate without being discouraged and go back to Reddit and Youtube, because you can at least fight for a Top 10 position out of all things(because the "King of the hill" medal is as impossible to get as retreiving a needle in space). Be prepared for some forum posters utterly destroy your worldview, then having someone support you when you are logically confused. Be prepared to enter a course for semantical English because who cares if you lose conduct, Arguments is a 3 point deal. Be prepared for someone either conceding when they have the chance of stealing the win or argue for the utterly insane because they don't want to lose. Be prepared to accept an acceptable topic, then having the instigator wandering on the forums and forfeit all 3 rounds and handing you perhaps the emptiest win ever on Earth.
But at the end of the day we still love Mafia as usual.
STARRING
Virt;
Unintelligent Intelligence(Sorry I had to);
And last, but not least:
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Thank you for reading this. Hope you liked it. Again, nothing above is meant to be treated seriously or personally. It is just comical relief.
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When you got no clue of what you are doing but you are apparently statistically one of the best debaters on this site
STONKS
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As that I am a pretty chill person, I don’t start arguments unless the controversial topic greatly affects the world. The last time was a few months ago. I want know how normal people argue, as well as all these questions:
What count as sources in a verbal debate, and how does its justification operate?
Why that logic rarely works on normal arguments with people?
Suppose you are a good debater on DART, then does that mean you will do better in verbal debating? Why or why not?
Can you win against one person of your family in an ordinary argument? Why or why not?
Why is that people often use Ad hominem as the dominant strategy in their arguments?
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I have seen this quote on one of my friend's social media profile pictures. Given that we are close friends, I see this quote every day I open the software. The more I think about it, the more I think it is false.
Let's say I am a basketball player. I try to shoot 10 times and it goes in 7 times. My accuracy of shots would be 7/10, or 70%, OR 0.7.
Let's say there is a much more qualified player and shoots all 10 in. His shot accuracy would be 10/10, meaning 100% and 1.0.
Now, you shoot 0 and you have 0 going in. What would that be? 0/0. We all know that is undefined. according to the saying itself, 1-100%=0 so this is saying 0/0 is 0.
This saying is false. alright.
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I am surprised that this didn't exist on DART back then. For 2 years.
Either way, this is meant to be a place where people on this site share their artworks, and everything related to it. Just general.
I will go first.
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What people believes, it later becomes the facts.
What people believes is made of feelings.
Facts are fundamentally just feelings.
Facts used to be that God is truth and anything said against God is lies. Facts used to be that Earth is completely flat.
Now they aren't actual facts anymore, mainly that people don't believe that anymore.
Comment your thoughts on this.
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There are cases for both, which one is it?
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Give me examples of ill sense of humor.
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Muoctahedronhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Petrie-2.gif
Mutetrahedronhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Petrie-3.gif
Those are all indeed regular polyhedra.
Feel free to ask questions.
I am not ebuc.
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From the 80s and earlier, cars are considered a luxury, and motorsport is an alien term to most of the Chinese population. Chinese cars are just there for exhibition, with its reliability inferior to the Japanese, American and German counterparts.
From the 90s and on, the Chinese automotive industry was dominated by Geely, if there is any domestic sales. Geely once had an era in which they sold zero cars in an entire year and when they had a premiere party, only one person came.
Now what is Geely doing? Oh, just cooperating with Volvo and winning World Touring Car Championships.
From the 90s to now the Chinese car's quality has multiplied for a large amount of times. From having no one buying domestic cars to winning motorsports championships, it sure is a long way.
Any ideas of what the future of the Chinese automotive industry will look like?
(Yes, I know, the masses might still use outdated models)
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