David Ennis

Retired physics teacher, amateur education researcher, lifelong observer of human nature, devotee of US founding principles, would-be writer.

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@thematrixb0t Carlin is expressing his BELIEF. Many in the audience will adopt this BELIEF, because their physical brains did not fully develop the neuro networks to generate beliefs from personal experience, and to assess and screen the beliefs of others. And, yes, Carlin is one of them.

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@kat_maryb @JoeBlow31932893 As I recall, it's Keep your mind on your driving, keep your hands on the wheel, keep you snoopy eyes on the road ahead. We're havin' fun, sittin' in the back seat huggin' and a-kissin' with Fred.

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@kat_maryb "If I'm laden at all, I'm laden with sadness
that everyone's heart isn't filled with the gladness
of love for one another."
That's what used to be the liberal sentiment, but they lost it. I've always been a conservative anyway, but credit where credit is due for that lyric.

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@skepticstoic1 @realDonaldTrump Regarding the Ukraine war, it was so stupid for commentators and others to say that Putin was afraid of Trump. That, as much as anything, is why Putin dug in his heals, surprising Trump. No one acknowledges this, but there it is.

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@HistorianUSA1 In a friendly tone, "Well, I'm not perfect, but I have no weakness that ever affected my ability to do my job." Add, "On the job I always think in terms of my role and what it requires." Humility, competence, and service. Leaves the Interviewer with nothing to pursue.

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@ModernxDad Always make such people define their terms. Neurologically fragile?? That's a senseless term. Neurology has to do with physical nerves, not behavior. BTW, real data shows that suicidal thoughts, cutting, piercing, and tattooing are more prevalent in girls than boys. Hmmmm.

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You're right, I'm sorry. I get triggered by the energy idea. I don't think there is any answer to your question. This is all theory consisting of notions physical reality invented to flesh out a skeleton that the math seems to describe to someone. Space expanding and carrying its contents faster than the speed of light? Personally, I don't think so.

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@VertFuel_Pre @aakashgupta Energy does not cause anything, and is not even an existent entity. We invented it to tally the effects of force in space. Force causes things.

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@aakashgupta And everything that happens in that map, from the interactions of galaxies to the motion of an electron in the formation of a molecule of water on Earth is an effect of force exerted through distance. This is the most fundamental law of the universe, yet never taught in schools.

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@krassenstein The liberal mind can put words together, but the resulting verbal constructions are not connected to physical reality. Their brains have developed without the capability of processing relationships, cause and effect, or processes. I call this condition logical palsy.

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This is a brilliant post. It is an extended aphorism worthy of Eric Hoffer, but with deeper wrinkles and sharper edges. It's the first post I ever bookmarked.

The large language model is much more than an apt metaphor for the brain with good memory and verbal prowess but without understanding. To me and a few of my colleagues who have studied this through the lens of the learning process; it labels a physical reality in the state of the development brains of such people. Their brains ain't lit. For a brain to "light up" with understanding, we have found that three physically distinct information processing areas of the brain need to be stimulated to work together to perceive connections and relationships between things. When a person can simultaneously perceive relationships between things (physical things and abstract things) diagrammatically, linguistically, and symbolically, understanding happens. Understanding is a mental state-the ideal mental state. Any physics teacher who might be reading has seen many students who could solve problems but had no idea what it all meant. Those students were operating exclusively in the symbolic area.

There is much more to all of this. But this is Mr. Eriksen's wonderful thread, not mine. I was just so impressed with and enabled by his words that I couldn't shut up.

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@TheLaurenChen I was with you until you used the term, "liberal brainrot." At that point you slipped into being part of the problem. We've all done that. Although it's hard when they're constantly shooting at us, we need to understand the mental processes under their thinking (and our own).

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@simonateba I'm calling AI on that image, though. There is no actual photographic evidence from that angle.

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@JennMGreenberg Frame by frame observation of the video tells me that the officer might have shot mainly to defend his colleague from being dragged by an out of control, hostile, non-compliant driver. That officer should have been reassigned after his own previous trauma.

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@PhilosophyOfPhy I can kind of imagine. Right now I seem to be the only person in the world that knows that 2+2=4 is nonsensical and the consequences of teaching it, and that the first law of the universe is that all change is the effect of force exerted through distance.🤪 No, seriously.

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@ginamilan_ DNA and fingerprints from shell casings would not be of use until they found the man who matched them. That would not have happened without the homeless man, or until days after someone smelled the shooter's body decaying in the storage unit.

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@Wendehorn117664 @gatewaypundit The Providence police commander had said earlier that the homeless man absolutely broke the case. So I was astounded when a reporter asked the FBI member at the press conference if the homeless guy would get the reward, and he said, yeah he probably deserves some of it.

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@PhysInHistory It's all merely-yet profoundly-belief. Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it, as we old people say.

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@EdKrassen Could you, your cohorts, and MAGA -- all -- please stop being so goddamned stupid? You're all equally toxic.

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@kate_p45 @nicksortor I'm surprised that so few people know that he also killed the MIT professor, two days later.