This topic makes me think of the movie BlacKkKlansman - yes it is comedy/drama, but still directs the issue that we see in today's society and all the hatred that is spread. I believe there are hundred many more cases just like these two and this is just the tip of the iceberg sadly.

In 1988, President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act to compensate more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent who were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. The legislation offered a formal apology and paid out $20,000 in compensation to each surviving victim. The law won congressional approval only after a decade-long campaign by the Japanese-American community.

The keys fall by gravity for people who don't adhere to the FSM.

That's like saying you can toss your car keys on the table, except that they will just float.

All you have to do is ignore a hundred years of failure and millions of lives taken as a result of the ideology of Socialism and your analogy makes perfect sense!

Gravity, on the other hand, is a word that is applied to things that actually exist. Gravity theory might be wrong. But gravity itself exists. Anybody who says it doesn't is simply trying to change the language. Why? Because the things that the word gravity talk about, really exist and are used by people around the world on a second-by-second basis.

Thank You President Trump.

LOL!

Forty-three students favored banning DHMO, six were undecided, and only one correctly recognized that ‘dihydrogen monoxide’ is actually plain old water.


The water molecule has the chemical formula H2O, meaning each molecule of water is composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Literally, the term "dihydrogen monoxide" means "two hydrogen, one oxygen", consistent with its molecular formula: the prefix di- in dihydrogen means "two", the prefix mon- in monoxide means "one", and an oxide is an oxygen atom attached to another atom in an ionic compound.


Included in the Wikipedia and Snopes articles is the fact that the dihydrogen monoxide problem is all a joke.

Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Contributes to soil erosion.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.
Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere, and in hurricanes including deadly storms in Florida, New Orleans and other areas of the southeastern U.S.
Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor to the El Nino weather effect.

as an industrial solvent and coolant,
in nuclear power plants,
by the U.S. Navy in the propulsion systems of some older vessels,
by elite athletes to improve performance,
in the production of Styrofoam,
in biological and chemical weapons manufacture,
in the development of genetically engineering crops and animals,
as a spray-on fire suppressant and retardant,
in so-called "family planning" or "reproductive health" clinics,
as a major ingredient in many home-brewed bombs,
as a byproduct of hydrocarbon combustion in furnaces and air conditioning compressor operation,
in cult rituals,
by the Church of Scientology on their members and their members' families (although surprisingly, many members recently have contacted DHMO.org to vehemently deny such use),
by both the KKK and the NAACP during rallies and marches,
by members of Congress who are under investigation for financial corruption and inappropriate IM behavior,
by  kids who play Beyblades,
by the clientele at a number of bath houses in New York City and San Francisco,
historically, in Hitler's death camps in Nazi Germany, and in prisons in Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Libya, Iraq and Iran,
in World War II prison camps in Japan, and in prisons in China, for various forms of torture,
during many recent religious and ethnic wars in the Middle East,
by many terrorist organizations including al Qaeda,
in community swimming pools to maintain chemical balance,
in day care centers, purportedly for sanitary purposes,
by software engineers, including those producing DICOM software and other DICOM software tools,
by popular computer science professors,
by aspiring young adult fiction writers and mental health advocates,
by international travel bloggers,
by the semi-divine King Bhumibol of Thailand and his many devoted young working girls in Bangkok,
by the British Chiropractic Association and the purveyors of the bogus treatments that the BCA promotes,
by commodities giant Trafigura in their well-publicized and widely-known toxic-waste dumping activities in Ivory Coast,
in animal research laboratories, and
in pesticide production and distribution.

I don´t see safety as an issue. There are much more dangereous petrochemical product being mass produced and there are immensely more dangerous products transported by road everyday. Not to mention the jet fuel in planes.

Around a decade ago, due to my work at that time, I assisted a meeting in which an emergency plan was discussed. The option that was taken in the case of spillage of certain chemical product transported by road (routinely) was to vent it towards the valley north of the installations.That would imply the certain death of around 5k people and that was the least damaging option.

Believe me, hydrogen is not particularly bad in that regard.

I also want to save the planet but solar energy alone is not the answer because what it is going to happen on cloudy days? no power... The solution has to be a combination of solar power and wind power and yes nuclear power too. I know that nuclear power it is  dangerous but if we as humanity are going to expand across the galaxy we need to master the nuclear energy

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You can call me Ghandi if you wish!!  Guess I'm not quite as far left and a little farther south than Ghandi but close enough for me!

Although the whole hunger strike thing doesn't sound like my way of protesting shit!  He seemed a little more tolerant of people than I am as well!

I guess if you listen to the community here my quadrant is the "80% insane, fascist, communist, authoritarian from a frozen wasteland" quadrant!

evolution
[ev-o-lu-tion]

noun

1. any process of formation or growth; development:
2. a product of such development; something evolved:
3. change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.
4. a process of gradual, peaceful, progressive change or development, as in social or economic structure or institutions.
5. a motion incomplete in itself, but combining with coordinated motions to produce a single action, as in a machine.
6. a pattern formed by or as if by a series of movements:
7. an evolving or giving off of gas, heat, etc.
8. the extraction of a root from a quantity.
9. a movement or one of a series of movements of troops, ships, etc., as for disposition in order of battle or in line on parade.
10. any similar movement, especially in close order drill.

There might hoaxes regarding gravity, but gravity itself isn't a hoax.

Gravity:
All the things listed in the definition of gravity really exist and happen.

You can call it gravity if you want, or if you want, you can call it by any of the words in any of the other languages that exist... what they call gravity.

You can even make up you own word for gravity... like the FE people want to use the word "density."

It's simply that the people in the English language generally use the word "gravity."

Since all the things in the definition exist, at least as far as simple people who are not deep-thinking scientists are concerned, they have decided to use the word "gravity" to describe them. So, gravity exists.

Ofcourse it's published on a polish site. Everything from eastern-europe is shit, especially Poland.

Take gravity, for example: the force of attraction between massive
particles. We know a great deal about the properties of gravity, yet we
know nothing about the cause of the force itself. Why are particles attracted
to one other? If we review the literature, we find a lot of material
dealing with the properties of gravity, but very little dealing with the
underlying cause of this attraction. Until we have a proven answer to
this question, it seems irresponsible to instruct students in what is, ultimately,
just a theory. However, if we must discuss the theory of gravity
at all, then it's reasonable that all suggested theories should be given
equal time, since none have been proven or disproven. Therefore, I formally
submit that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is behind this strange
and often misunderstood force.

What if it is He, pushing us down with His Noodly Appendages, that
causes this force? He is invisible, remember, and is undetectable by
current instruments, so in theory it is possible. And the fact that the
gravitational powers of the Spaghetti Monster haven't been disproven
makes it all the more likely to be true. We can only guess as to His motives,
but it's logical to assume that if He is going to such trouble, there
is a good reason. It could be that He doesn't want us floating off earth
into space, or maybe just that He enjoys touching us—we may never
know. 1
And while it's true that we don't have any empirical evidence to back
up this theory, keep in mind the precedent set by Intelligent Design
proponents. Not only is observable, repeatable evidence not required to
get an alternative theory included in the curriculum, but simply poking
holes in established theory may be enough. In this case, the
established theory of gravity makes no mention as to the cause of the
force; it merely presents the properties of it. I fully expect, then, that
this FSM theory of gravity will be admitted into accepted science with
a minimum of apparently unnecessary bureaucratic nonsense, including
the peer-review process.
For further evidence of the true cause of gravity—that we are being
pushed down by His Noodly Appendages—we need only look at our historical
records. The average height of humans two thousand years ago
was about five feet three inches for males, compared with an average
height of around five feet ten inches for males today. Useless by itself,
this information becomes quite important when viewed in terms of
worldwide population. Humans, apparently obsessed with fucking, have
increased their numbers exponentially over the years. We find, counterintuitively,
that a small population correlates with shorter humans,
and a larger population correlates with taller humans. 2
 This only
makes sense in light of the FSM theory of gravity. With more people on
earth today, there are fewer Noodly Appendages to go around, so we
each receive less touching—pushing down toward the earth—and thus,
with less force downward, we're taller.

We can fully expect that as the population increases, and we receive less
downward pushing by the FSM, we'll continue to grow in height.
Conversely, we can expect that the sudden occurrence of a worldwide
plague would cause our average height to decrease. This phenomenon
can be verified in historical records. We find that regions
undergoing health crises have shorter people -
strong evidence that the theory is sound.
No one is saying that the FSM theory of gravity is
necessarily true, but at the very least, it's based on
sound science, sound enough to be included in the
curriculum with the other nonproven theories. Until
the currently taught theory of gravity, known as
Newtonism, is proven as fact, alternatives should be
taught as well.

Guess who is the least authoritarian person on this board?