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of course, I remember, now. Thanks

Both of you win the prize. I'm inquiring with Mods to see about some official DA recognition. 

Zed, you launched the ship. 

The answer is: yes.

Walker, you have the helm and the navigation map, posting within Zed's post by a few hours; he, lacking the exact number of molecules, but knowing that had relevance.

Well done to both.

It is correct, the solve is the number of water molecules collected together. Five in a cluster is insufficient to exhibit wetness; six or more linked together are wet.

Walker, you are correct: my source was a New Scientist article from February 1997

No, Mrs Faux leaves me the liberty to do my keyboard magic without consultation [although sometimes I seek her advice anyway].

Many congrats. This marriage bit is not all bliss; we get not some heated arguments, mostly because I still do not understand women - they're from Venus, you know. I don't know where we're from, but it's a different place. Besides, I learned long ago that Eve was the ultimate creation [she followed Adam], and, according to Michelangelo [ref: the Sistine Chapel ceiling] she was created within  the embrace of his left shoulder while Adam is at arm's length! Tells me all I need to know.

Best faux wishes. No, scrub luck; that's love, boyo.

Guys, thus can't be this difficult. I just realized, verifying my source [unnamed for reasons that ought to be understood] that "we," i.e. science, has known this for 28 years, almost to the day.  That's older than some of you. I remember it being announced,. so I've been around the block a few times.

Yes, a distinction without a difference. The question is "Why?"

Same reply as to Sidewinder:

Trump has never declared personal bankruptcy. Not once, let alone your accusation of [7]. Those were part of 530+ businesses under the Trump Org umbrella [not Trump, the man, they are different entities, even legally, according to law from the 1880s], and they were just not making money; the whole point of maintaining a business in the first place. Therefore, rational decisions. You're dealing with a guy who has a business sense of profitability that ranks 99.7% success rate. Much better than yours, I suggest.  And the 4 casinos were 4 of those [7], not additive to them. I understand if your claims are from MessNBC, or Cartoon News Network, and, no, my information was not obtained from FoxNews. It was from Forbes and Wall Street Journal, and background from NYSE. Why are you so afraid of the man? Sure, I don't like his morals, but I already have a decent moral advisor, and I don't expect any president to fill that role. It's not listed among constitutional presidential candidate qualifications. Nor is being a felon listed as a negative, by the way. Like I said, my moral adviser is pretty good. Perfect, as it happens. Goes by the name of Jesus of Nazareth, among others. The rest is individual vetting responsibility by voters. Well, voters spoke their mind, didn't they? Take your complaint to all of them. I've given you what I think is important about the role of the president. Any president. I want a guy who can act, even if he may turn out to be wrong. Better than being a fence sitter, and a poor chooser of surrounding staff. That was What'shisname, and his party knew it, didn't they?

Trump has never declared personal bankruptcy. Not once, let alone your accusation of 6. Those were part of 530+ businesses under the Trump Org umbrella [not Trump, the man, they are different entities, even legally, according to law from the 1880s], and they were just not making money; the whole point of maintaining a business in the first place. Therefore, rational decisions. You're dealing with a guy who has a business sense of profitability that ranks 99.7% success rate. Much better than yours, I suggest.  And the 4 casinos were 4 of those 6, not additive to them. I understand if your claims are from MessNBC, or Cartoon News Network, and, no, my information was not obtained from FoxNews. It was from Forbes and Wall Street Journal, and background from NYSE. Why are you so afraid of the man? Sure, I don't like his morals, but I already have a decent moral advisor, and I don't expect any president to fill that role. It's not listed among constitutional presidential candidate qualifications. Nor is being a felon listed negative, by the way. Like I said, my moral adviser is pretty good. Perfect, as it happens. Goes by the name of Jesus of Nazareth, among others.

What'shisname left office last month with inflation still at a rate that for commodity average, is still over 20%. higher than when What'shisname took office in 2021, when inflation rate was 1.4%.

Because ex nihilo doesn't.

I was married for 20 years before I could talk my wife into giving  a bj to me. Being a novice at it, she still got my rocks off...

But, then again, I'd made a list before I was even looking for a wife of what attributes I would like in a wife.  But when I met her, that list went bye-bye in a split second, I didn't care a bit whether she met everything or anything on the list. Everything in my head and heart was screaming "This is the girl you're going to marry, dummy," but without the words. It was total feeling in my head that hit me square in the jaw. As it turned out, she met them all but one: she was not talented in music. I don't  care, now. Stupid wish. She likes music, and we like much the same music. But there's so much more to her than I ever put on my list. Dummy me, I married up. Smartest thing I ever did. That's why we've been together for 52 years. Not many of us are, anymore. She is my best friend.

Had to look-up "pfp." Never heard of it before. Too many acronyms. I've always called it "avatar." Guess I should shelve that one, huh? pfp is certainly more descriptive, and I've always thought "mouse" was a horribly inefficient moniker for that computer peripheral, in the old days when it had a tail... but out of its head?

Good point, but doesn't that happen to everyone who jumps into an existing lake? Why Chuck Norris? I say "existing" because the Salton Sea in So. California  is virtually dry, but still called that.

Nope. No tree thing. It's legit.

As for most disliked word, without consulting my preferred search engine [not google] my personal favorite is "if." Anything following 'if' in a logic test must assume is not currently true, or the question would not be asked, and, therefore, 'if' cannot justify what follows as a 'then' expression.

According to Ladders [theladders.com:  https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/these-are-the-9-most-hated-words-in-the-english-language  ]

the most hated English word is: moist. This from a series of surveys Ladders did. I don't follow the reasoning, and I'd hold with my 'if' suggestion, but moist is many someones' suggestion.

Whatever [Ladder's 3rd most hated word] 

In the early years of the internet, I once decided to market "de-hydrated water." I sold a zip-lock bag with a label I produced: "De-hydrated water, Just add water" and added my business. name and email address. I sold the bags at something like $1.50, plus shipping. I actually sold a few; far too few to cover my production expense, which I wrote off as a business expense, because I was running a personal business at the time [still do], on which I paid income and property tax, licensing fees, etc. I received a lot of emails asking about my product. I couldn't believe the gullibility some people have, and still do.

That's a very good analysis, but another material surface is not the root cause of water being wet. But telling you why that is would give away the store. Ain't gonna do it.

Oh... you're so close just by that explanation, but not the root that I'm looking for. keep thinks and searching.

Hadn't heard that one before, but, no, that's not it. Telling you why would give away the store.

No, when it isn't wet in the first place, that will not make it so.

Nope, that's not it. Sorry.

Clever, I've not thought of it in that manner, and thinking about it, the water beneath is already wet, so...  but, no, sorry, that's not the answer I'm waiting to see.

Language is a product of culture, and our understanding of that product of other cultures is best served by understanding that product better than we do, currently. Particularly when we borrow another's language as an idiom of our own. That is the relevance of being allies, and that is clearly not your focus. So, back at you. Why do you think there are so many errors in Biblical text, fore example, that are obvious, and used to denigrate that text as not being holy writ. Translation is mostly done by dictionary-to dictionary comparison, but dictionaries are piss-poor teachers on culture. It just does not work. Were "biblical" scholars of the 5th century truly masters of Hebrew and Greek, or just Christian scholars who may have made honest attempts at translation, or may have had alternate motivation to corrupt, or both? We don't know, and lacking original texts, then and now, I don't doubt there are thousands of denominations just among Christians, worldwide, let alone Judaism.

IN my life, I have mastered English [mother tongue], French, Greek. Italian, and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and they were accomplished as much by direct in-dept exposure to those cultures as by classroom education. 

Allowing harmful substances across their borders is a feature of the USMCA both Canada and  Mexzico signed, as well. Are we powerless to enforce that? No, tariffs are appropriate enforcement.

When is water wet?

This is not a trick question. ChoirI offer this question as a valid science; not a joke. The implication being that H20 has condition[s] rendering water not wet. Invalid answers are its conditions as solid, liquid, and vapor  as we all learned in chemistry., because wetness can be demonstrated in all three conditions. I mean wetness as a factor of construct, not merely temperature. I will say no more relative to clarification.

All answers will be entertained, but the win goes to the first contestant who answer the question correctly. I will confirm there is a singular correct answer, though an answer given I have not learned previously may be consulted for correctness if not the condition I have in mind as the correct answer. Appeal is allows given my response to you, I will respond to all replies.

You are free to inquire by whatever means are at your disposal other than asking me outright. 

Is there a prize? How about satisfaction of knowledge? Is that not worthy of competition?

Be careful citing "laissez faire," when you apparently don't understand what that means to the French, and us by extension. I'm of French ancestry [that's why the tri-color of my avatar], and lived there for 3 years in my early 20s, so I know the language fluently.  It means, literally, "allow to do," but that comes with conditions; namely, Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, the slogan of the French Revolution, which we in the U.S share as ideals, including the French "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen." That does not imply  that "laissez faire" means we can do whatever the hell we want, which is your interpretation, but that  we have the  freedom to do anything that does not harm others; a very U.S. Constitution doctrine. From whom do you think we got that particular nugget of truth? No, not from usurper KingJohn's Magna Carta, which does inspire much of the ratified Constitution in 1787.

As for Marxism,  the creation of Karl Marx in 1848 [I'll assert here that it was suggested by Lucifer long ago], although Marx was thought by some to be a brilliant industrialist, he never even ran a lemonade stand, which teaches true  and correct principles of a free market economy, which are ambition, planning, and. execution by means of innovation, competition, and lid-blowing [no ceilings]. No marxist economy has succeeded for 100 years, and the average time to failure is 40 years, because Marxists do not know how to create, but merely spend wealth.

Yeah, I was referring to Greenland, but it could also refer to any other territory, whether currently populated, or not. Relative to the quote above,  its population is relevant. The population o Canada has doubled in my lifetime, and that adds to the competency to add to our body of knowledge, tech, survival, and well being.

Yep. Still adequately prepared and close. Now approaching 5 years' ability to go completely off the grid, if need be. Freeze-drying is a God-send. But I am currently violating State code for fresh water storage. It allows just 5,000 gal. The way I see it, rainwater on my property ought to be mine, and mine alone, so I collect from all roof downspouts through a filter and into my cistern. What falls outside my roof footprint is free to runoff where it will, much to a stream at the back of my property and neighbors, as well.  

Yeah, I'm a boomer, as you know, but I've been around then sun 75 times, and I'm relatively observant. I even remember Eisenhower, and was born under Truman.

Yup, wound, as expected, and it's appreciated. Happy Groundhog Day,  zed. Spring is coming. Game of Thrones can shove their dumb winter.

What's the dollar value of a strategic advantage?

That's a free market economy for you: winners and losers, but no ceiling win a free market, and no pit in marxism. Only marxism believes in limits. even by its direct cause.

Not sexual assault. You're a broken record. And, so what? Does any item on your list violate the qualifications for candidacy of the presidency specified in Article II? No, they don.t. That kind of vetting is done by voters. They spoke. You get to sit down, now

You do not help your cause by posting lies. And you complain that Trump lies. Projecting? Rape is a criminal offense. He was tried and found liable [that's not the equivalent of guilt]. He was tried in civil court. You really need to learn the difference. I get it you don't like Trump. There are things he's done in his past, and even now that do not make him popular in some circles, but none of them, not one damn thing he has done eliminates his eligibility to be a candidate for, and the elected president of the United States, according to the qualifcations of Article II, not even the feloneous conviction. That what voting vetting is all about. He was elected, just as I accept Biden 2was in 20, so just stiop complaining and enjoy the ride as best you can

Agreed. When looked at objectively [unbiased by wokeness], America First is a worldview objective. It's just that somebody must lead that effort. Welcome, Donald Trump, because he knows what is good for American endeavor is good for the world, so long as they agree what is best for them. There's certain room for naysayers, but, meantime, the room is moving on. 

"Most people..." who? you and your pocket mouse? Sorry, I will accept legitimate statistical results, having some professional skill [I am a Six Sigma BlackBelt] in the science of statistics. Political polling, specifically, is some of the worst statistical analysis in existence, all due to the fact that analysis depends on good data input. Political "stats" never begin there.

What do you think he's been trying to tell us he'd do for the past ten years, only Democrats are deathly afraid of him, in spite of the success of the first term, which was maligned by lawfare. Their fear is misguided, and totally obtuse. They're a greater threat to democracy by their constant whining, let alone their conversion to marxism. Marxis li0nized as being this brilliant industrialist. He never ran a lemonade stand, and worse, never knew how one could be made successfully competitive. Marxism has never endured more than 100 years, and typically fails in 40 years, simply because they do not know how to create wealth. Spend it, no problem, there, but one can spend only what one has, or consumes.

So, why didn't any of those things on your list occur in his first term, which had an average 1.9% inflation rate,  below the expected rate [2.5%] for a good economy, and was 1.4% in his last quarter? You forget we've been here before, and, but for Covid, which is turning out to be as much or more a Fauci-born experiment gone wrong than a legit epidemic.

De-funding DEI makes sense in this constitutional perspective: 

Diversity is applied to race.

Equity is applied to race.

Inclusion is applied to race.

According to the Human Genome Project, concluded in 2003, "race" cannot be shown to be genetic via DNA by any demonstrable gene, or collection of genes. Therefore, to insist we continue to diversify, equate, or include, ]or in fact, the direct inverse of these] ourselves by the descriptive, "race," countermands scientific research results. Why do we need to continue to express this anachronistic term in pejorative terms? DEI, a woke concept, is dead. Leave it to the dead to argue, and let us move on, now properly educated in this regard.

"What a generous and purposeful consequence it would be. What a delight for the heart, mind and soul. Then all of us will sit at that grand table where all foods are enjoyed, all law respected, all hands joined, all cultures embraced, all skin colors celebrated, and all deities honored. What else could we ever want or need?"

This is how I concluded the 2nd edition of my book, Faux Law, [the origin of my username] ©2022, on misinterpretation of constitutional language. 

Trump did not "pass a bill." Presidents do not pass bills. That is the responsibility of Congress, only [relative to federal law]. presidents sign bills into law, or vetoes them, only. ProblemWhat Trump did sign on his first evening in office was an Executive Order, which is not legislation. It is department policy; specifically of tree Executive Department. 

Thanks so much for being there. Y'all know what I mean

Thank you. Good to be back.

Thank so much, for her. She is an incredible young lady. I call her an old soul. I recognized it very early in her life. She just thinks of things that took me 30 years to even start to understand.

I don't agree with the broad strokes of "objective morality," because it assumes one's morality is everyone's morality, and I disagree. Morality is an intensely personal concept some may share - -in fact,  many can -- but we each bring our own experience and expectations to the party, and those are not mutually accepted.

Yeah, we blocked each other a few years ago. I'm willing to unblock, but it may take a bit. I don't remember how it's done, just know it can be.

Oh, yeah...

Armstrong was a genius. Had an opportunity to see him perform once, long, long ago. Magic!Thanks for the reminder

Thanks, but can't take the credit for the poem, that was all my granddaughter. She did not consult me at all; just showed me her finished product. I cried reading it, seeing as she was just 11. 14 now, and still a very old soul.  However, we did publish the poem  in a small book which I illustrated. Yeah, that wand took a bit of conjuring to get it right. If you like, I'll send you a link for purchase -  it's on Amazon

Thanks. I'm just fine. Couldn't be better, even if this were heaven. Well, that's what we make of it, isn't it?

Some may think so. Let's just say I was able to get out of the buried coffin and just found the surface again.

According to one site, https://www.crossrivertherapy.com/research/average-iq#:~:text=The%20average%20IQ%20of%20countries,Finland%3A%20101.20 , the average IQ worldwide ranges between 85 - 115, evidence that it is measured differently depending on country. With so many variable tests, who knows how accurately a person's "intelligence" is tested/rated. I don't see how you say, categorically, that China ranks highest, orally other country, because that may only depend on their assessment, but who says anyone's test[s] are any better than anyone else's? In the US, we have at least 5 separate tests, all which result in different values, but all are considered "official." 

Yes, the Bible tells us in very clear language that Jesus died for us, but also resurrected for us. All of us.

But God's chosen were not just Jews, but the whole of the House of Israel - all twelve tribes, not just one of them; Judah. The other tribes are among us, but they mostly have no idea of their heritage and ancestry. They will, one day, have the knowledge, and all will, on that day of known reunion, be joyful.

A poem by my 11 year-old granddaughter, published in 2022 [will be 14 in March]

When I'm by myself

And I close my eyes

I'm a chicken pecking at a wall,

A girl alone at a ball,

I'm a petal floating in a pond.

I go far and beyond,

A sly fox looking for prey,

A tree that will sway.

A cat in your face,

I'll win in a race.

I'm a girl who will listen,

A wand that will glisten.

I'm whatever I want to be,.

Anything I care to be.

And when I open my eyes,

What I care to be

Is me.

Your reply to ranacat doesn't cut it, because your initial post [above]  is lacking the phrase cited below your first post by description of not just a sexual relationship, but one resulting in a release of fluid. That's called baiting in some circles. Not all "sexual" relationships result in male orgasm, my friend, even between males, because they don't, and because  in some relationships, there is no stimulation of the genitals to achieve release, etc, etc, etc. That's why the quotes around "sexual," because that's a loaded word that does not always result in '"premature efactulation."

if/then logic isn't [logical], because the 'if' statement is virtually always false as given, and, therefore, cannot justify the 'then' statement, unless 'if' is changed.

Example: if wishes were fishes, [then I would be... [whatever I claim I would be, but I'm currently not]

I'm not familiar with Christ saying only the dead can forgive [Jews, or otherwise], but I'm very familiar with a repeating theme of our necessity to forgive others, and to do so repeatedly. We're not dead, nor were those Christ enjoined to forgive others.  I did a search for the statement you made as I quoted above, and find no  N.T. reference that Jesus said that. However, it occurs to me that when Jesus died, were you implying that he could still forgive? Let's recall that he rose on the third day, presumably a Sunday following his Friday crucifixion; hence the typical Sunday worship of Christians as opposed to Friday sundown -Saturday sundown as the Judaic Sabbath.

I suggest getting an honorable mention  as the debater in the top 20 with the most no-vote ties: 8 of 11 ties that no one, zip, nada, bothered to read and vote. Over 400 of you who are "active," which is one of the site activities, yeah?, cannot be bothered to read and vote. If I was not also in the top ten in voting [in fact, for my single year, plus presence, I've voted more often than just 7 of you], so I'm trying to contribute, and wish that more did, as well. Thanks, everybody for your ignorance. What is this site all about, anyway? It's apparently premature efactulation; a bunch of adolescents who have no idea what stuff is really all about [and yet, most of you are well. beyond the trustable age, and are not yet trustable. That's 30, by the way, to boomers]. I have two more debates in in voting with no votes; go ahead; make it a round 10. There happen to be two more in voting with no votes. Make it an even dozen no vote ties. Congratulations. I have a life and I'll get back to it.

Au revoir.