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@vzn I've never said that capitalism is better than communism and I've never said that capitalism has no flaws. What I'm saying is that I have two views on the subject: If I had to choose a government for myself to live in, I'd choose a government which allows me to personally get my hands on huge resources which I can allocate to places of my choice. I'd want to have control over what's going on and not just submit ideas and patents to a board of people.

The second point of view I have is that if I had to choose a government system for the world, I'd choose a system that allows for the most productivity and innovation, not necessarily happiness or equality. I know this might sound a bit wrong, but that is me. I'm not saying that people should not feel good, I'm saying that, in my opinion, innovation and productivity are more important than the release of dopamine in someone's brain.

vzn

5:43 AM

@NovaliumCompany read what you wrote. like that you seem to be trying to think out of the box, and applaud that. some would say the results are in on capitalism, and that its a failure. some new system(s) need to be devised/ put into play ASAP. its happening as we speak. a lot is riding on it. future of humanity, future of the planet/ nature. you outline the key areas to address. innovation, productivity, resource allocation, happiness, (in)equality, dopamine, etc lol...

6:02 AM

@vzn Sorry I don't know what you mean. I'm not proposing a new system nor do I applaud myself. I'm expressing my opinion on government systems or more specifically, "if I had to choose" opinion.

vzn

6:17 AM

@NovaliumCompany your comments envision a different system than the one we are living in. am applauding you for "thinking outside the box" which, as mass panic/ hysteria now surrounding us underlines, is sometimes an uncommon feat. sometimes conventional wisdom is highly overrated (to say the least... more precisely, sometimes its nearly crazy). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin

6:41 AM

@vzn Yes, as far as I know, no government today is truly capitalistic, socialistic or communistic.

Yuvraj Singh...

7:29 AM

@ACuriousMind what?

Regarding my yesterday's comment?

@YuvrajSingh... You can click on the little arrow on the right to reply to specific messages when you mouse over the message. Right now I'm afraid I don't know what you're referring to.

There were plenty of messages here yesterday :P

Yuvraj Singh...

I've had it with the "I didn't mean that" replies to thing that are clearly insulting by any possible interpretation

By acm

I am on my phone.

@ACuriousMind

@YuvrajSingh... And what exactly do you want from me? I don't really have an interest in revisiting that discussion unless it's absolutely necessary.

user434058

"Your shadow is a confirmation that light has traveled nearly 93 million miles unobstructed, only to be deprived of reaching the ground in the final few feet, thanks to you."

Yuvraj Singh...

@ACuriousMind you have habit of misunderstanding?

7:43 AM

Sorry, I'm not in the mood to try to guess what you're talking about. Please state clearly what you want from me and how it relates to what I said, or otherwise don't ping me.

7:55 AM

@Slereah Is there ever a right time to deal with the jet bundle? :P

Slereah

9:25 AM

Mar 31 at 15:58, by Slereah

I say we burn the witch

skillpatrol

me too

Q: Why is $\frac{987654321}{123456789} = 8.0000000729?!$

10:04 AM

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Many years ago, I noticed that $987654321/123456789 = 8.0000000729\ldots$. I sent it in to Martin Gardner at Scientific American and he published it in his column!!! My life has gone downhill since then:) My questions are: Why is this so? What happens beyond the "$729$"? What happens in bas...

user434058

10:16 AM

-1

Q: school suspention

can you get suspended from school if somebody fought you and even if you didn't fight back I heard that some people said that this happened is this true and if it is then why do they suspend you because they don't know if you punched the other or not or that is the rule they want to suspend every...

school

user434058

....And this was posted on Sound Design SE :D

sounds pretty sad to get suspended for getting beat-up

IRL can a person be sent to jail for being assaulted?

(neglecting police brutality, of course)

John Rennie

Whenever you find yourself hearing one side of a story immediately ask yourself whether the account you've heard is objective and what the other side of the story might be.

Secret

disclaimer: you need to first aware that you are on one side of the story

true, completely random acts of violence are rare

Secret

10:25 AM

the same idea as I need to first made aware I have a question to ask before I can ask a question

and that is something that cognitive bias like to filter away

and this is even worse when there is ideology involved as the ideology act as a filter to make you not even aware you need to question

11:33 AM

in other news: Can a virus hitch a ride on an odour particle?

12:09 PM

@tpg2114 Hello, I hope you're fine and well. I'm about to do the whole experiment we talked about. One thing that's a bit unclear is, how am I going to remove the baked polymer clay model out of the plaster mold? Will the polymer clay stick to the plaster mold while the plaster mold is being formed?

Would it be easier if I don't bake the polymer clay model and I make the plaster mold around the unbaked polymer clay?

If I do so, would the plaster mold turn out still as good?

JMac

@FakeMod I see you made a friend in some comments on a meta question today.

12:26 PM

is the sleepless one back?

user434058

12:38 PM

@JMac I regret doing that :)

@JMac @FakeMod For the record, engaging was absolutely superfluous there. That doesn't excuse the other user's behaviour, but...just flag rude comments by other users and don't engage. If someone has started throwing abuse around it is extremely unlikely you will convince them to stop doing that and highly likely you'll just produce more stuff that needs to be deleted later. Let the moderators take the abuse and move on.

JMac

@FakeMod Yeah I noticed you stopped responding and I figured you realized it was a mistake lol

user434058

@ACuriousMind I just felt the guy was too ungrateful, but I will control myself in the future.

I can understand the urge to debate people that are on the border of rudeness, but once someone is just shouting slurs, just walk away. Such behaviour is not welcome here, there is no need to normalize it as something that merits any other response than silent deletion.

user434058

Sure. Thanks!

tpg2114

12:46 PM

@NovaliumCompany not sure on that, I don't think it should stick but you might need to put a release agent on the clay. They use plaster of Paris to make face masks of people and all kinds of stuff, but they might need to put something on the face first

I'd give it a test on a small thing so you don't waste your resources and see if it releases or not, before you do it on your actual model