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@General

Welcome everyone to the general discussion group!

@manarock

Hard to say. I mean we see studies that suggest black people have genetic deficiencies other races do not all the time. for example it is well known and established science that blacks have a much higher incidence of sickle cell anemia than non-blacks. Despite this effectively looking like they are genetically inferior in that regard, and thus would be something you might think couldn't get published, it tends to be free published and fairly well accepted science.

The reason such studies stand little chance of getting published isnt so much about the biases in the industry, its about the fact that we have tested the hypothesis for over a 100 years in great depth and never once have found anything to support that assertion. So naturally its not something you will see getting published unless there is some pretty solid and reproducible data, and there never is.

@amerika @TradeMinister @arteteco

@amerika

There has been a great deal of research around IQ, even going so far as to investigate IQ differences among cultures we think of as different races, alot of that research is ongoing. Better IQ tests designed to be suited for tribal cultures with little contact with the outside world have been developed over the years for exactly that reason.

The issue is simply certain assertions have been made so often in the past and debunked so thuroughly, and almost always done under extreme bias, that most scientists arent going to rehash the same old nonsense unless someone actually comes up with a compelling high quality science, which is rarely the case in certain areas.

Every once in a while I come across some moron with a clearly racial bias trying to argue blacks are inherently lower IQ than whites, and every time when i give them the time and effort to review the evidence of their claim it is completely laughable the lack of evidence and the amount of bias they employed to collect it. Obviously when 99% of people arguing a particular point are always crackpots even if there is a valid point somewhere among them it isnt going to as easily get attention. Extraordinary claims take extraordinary evidence.

@TradeMinister @arteteco

@amerika

At no point did anyone claim it was.

@TradeMinister @arteteco

@amerika

So? That doesnt make anything I just said nonsense. You still have the ability to follow the sources and verify if due diligence has been done yourself. Thats the beauty of citations, it gives you everything you need to argue against a topic even if its content happened to be bias or censored.

@TradeMinister @arteteco

@TradeMinister

Sometimes funding can derail science and create some issues, no doubt.. A prime example of that is the whole autism vaccine nonsense where basically someone paid a bunch of money to a small minority of crooked scientists to produce a easily debunked paper. Even though the whole of the scientific community quickly rejected the paper its very existence was used as fodder by some for years to come. So yes a person with some money can certainly use psudo-science to cause some harm.

But these sorts of situations never get very far, they certainly dont pass any comprehensive peer review, and generally is not what we see from the majority of the scientific community.

@amerika @arteteco

@amerika

Well thats a whole heap of ignorance there... no what you find is every generation **some** (and overall a small portion) of science that a **few** people considered settled science comes into question. The idea that this somehow discredits science is very much the opposite of the reaction one should have to that. It means science doesnt hesitate to question even some of its more established theories and over time improves its stance on these issues. exactly what you would want to see.

@TradeMinister @arteteco

@amerika

Then you clearly have an unscientific bias going in. While wikipedia is NOT authoritative or a scientific source, nor does it claim to be, it does cite ample sources for any assertion it makes. The expectation in science is that you do not blindly follow ANY publication. The value comes from following the sources, reviewing those, and then making a case or forming your own opinion on the validity of a statement based on the quality of its sources.

To discount any source that thoroughly cites its sources out of hand shows up front either an inability or an unwillingness to actually evaluate the topic in an impartial and thorough manner.

@TradeMinister @arteteco

@groovestomp If i want to send a fake-email I just ask my ex-girlfriend to send an email for me.

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@QOTO

@jkn

Pretty much doubles the price. Well worth it though IMO.

@calligraphy

@khird Yea I see that :( going to have to add that to the list of features/bugs i need to look into. Luckily it isnt abused too often.

Anyone out there who is entry-level in electronics or even just a hobbyist with no expiernce want a job? Its a sales job though, which is why you dont need really good electronics expiernce, but there is room to do actual EE too if that's your end goal.

Send a DM if interested.

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@mur2501 Mostly true in the USA too sadly.

@mur2501 Very true, and i dont think any politician is pure anything.. But biden is certainly pretty evil and Trump is evil too just a little less so. So either way it doesnt look good.

LOL oh god I can relate to this so much!

@pganssle just need to paint the accustic panels silver :)

@solderpunk In a sense this is already possible its just that no one wrote the tools to connect it all. The whole idea of a URI is it can reference anything on your system, a file, a website a piece of hardware, anything. So in theorry you could copy and paste anything (the URI would be the thing in the clipboard) and wherever you paste it to would have access to the resource...

The issue is there are very few apps that will handle the URI once you pasted it in a way that is inclusive to a large array of resources.

So the limitation isnt in the copy-paste mechanism so much as it is in the apps that utilize copy-paste.

@pganssle This makes me want to paint my walls a shiney/reflective silver..