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New cmon you knew it had to be out there, gloal warming causes more solar eclipses
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
New Life's too short to read stuff like that.
He needs to review Dimensional Analysis and edit that post.

tl;dr - it's not even wrong.

Cheers,
Scott.
("When are you going to the store?"
"23 acres and a milligram!")
New finish your bowl of wheatabix then relax, it was posted in jest
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
New I know. Still, life is too short.
New talk aboucher Synchronicity (those two links !!)
I mean.. I Mean: I'm remiss in not having, often-enough slogged-along into random Wikipedia entries: the Dimensional Analysis 'page' would seem to be a decent stand-in for a Junior-year Physics Final (waddaya Know fershure?) Exam.

Then Bingo! "Not even Wrong" AND a pæan to Karl Popper!
Whose Tome, The Open Society and its Enemies just happens to be in the er, short-stack (having to do with recent prestidigitations) re *IF* the Source (?) of the current weltschmerz, the implosion of the M.East and much-Else: really CAN/MAY be placed squarely with the bloody-Cheney Shogunate: it's utterly-FAUX [==OIL/OIL/OIL] non-inspection of the bases for their Invasion Mandate, fore-doomed by the Unutterably-STUPID management of the first decisive actions:

A) Firing all the armed people in sight (while having NO IDEA what "Sunni -vs- Shia" MIGHT also-too-MEAN.)
B) Multiplied -in-spades by the selection of a Drumpf-like ignoramus as is also a key component within this analysis.

..so Anyway: as I've mentioned in these parts a couple times: Popper manifestly was Heap Smart, as is alluded-to in your Not-Even-Wrong linkie, thence to Wiki's Karl Popper take, this being the Intro:


Sir Karl Raimund Popper CH FBA FRS[7] (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian Jewish-British philosopher and professor.[8][9][10] He is generally regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest philosophers of science.[11][12][13]
Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favour of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments. Popper is also known for his opposition to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with critical rationalism, namely "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy."[14]
In political discourse, he is known for his vigorous defence of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he came to believe made a flourishing open society possible. His political philosophy embraces ideas from all major democratic political ideologies and attempts to reconcile them: socialism/social democracy, libertarianism/classical liberalism and conservatism.[15]


Thanks for a fortuitous-pairing..
While (unlike Bertie) I am sure-not-to drive self nutzo in some effort to verify all the symbolic-logic steps in his philosophical-'math', "Open Society ..." (my copy) is ©1950 (ad interim in '46) and I likely got it in early '60s.
Where the 'frontispiece' often resides, he quotes Samuel Butler,

It will be seen , , , that the Erewhonians are a meek and long-suffering people, easily led by the nose, and quick to offer up common sense at the altar of logic, when a philosopher arises among them ...


(Know ay Erewhonians?)
..the book is a Tour de Force of familiar -isms, but the initial, near- diagrammatic backbone need not be digested at once/or at all; it's still pp 732 with notes and Refs, so given the ravages of digitalization on Modrin hippocampi [?] not many will go the distance, I wot. Clearly, a retrospective on the LAST NAZI EFFECTS, shall it also become the harbinger of THE DRUMPF *FALLOUT-as-REPEAT?

* er, solitary or with 'nuclear-' prepended..?


Carrion

It's what's on the telly to fill the time formerly used in Reading, and like that.
New You're right about "the ravages of digitalization on Modrin hippocampi"
Thanks. I've put Popper's opus on The List. Here's hoping I get a chance to read it soon.

I used to easily read a chapter a night for recreation. Now I'm lucky to read a book a year for recreation... :-/

Cheers,
Scott.
New Audio books while driving FTW
--

Drew
New My commute is usually only about 20-25 minutes.
But maybe it's worth considering. Hmm...

Thanks.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Narrators must be coached to read slowly
My audiobook app lets me speed up playback. I haven't found a nonfiction book yet that I couldn't get up over 150% and still hear comfortably.

Some podcasts I can only get up to about 130% because one of them is a fast-talking New Yorker.
--

Drew
New might try that after my 6 month free satelitte service is over, till then
I will wallow in my Stern addiction
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
New You must recall though (in such a self-made book-sparse predicament)
Æ's sage advice to all er, wannabe-Wise.-some.-day.-folk (?)

Imagination is more important than Knowledge.






.. and with Æ, a One doesn't even need to add any q.e.d.s, Right? ;^>
(TMI isn't just a slogan; I take it to be important- Warning.. y'Know?)
New :-) Yup. "My brain is full" isn't just a joke.
New Worst thing about it is...
...that IF that's intended as humour, the writer's tongue is planted so firmly in his cheek you can't be quite sure that that's what it is. Well, at least I can't: I'm not quite sure whether he's actually serious or not.
--
Christian R. Conrad
Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi

(Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
New Well for a start: he self-describes as a Deplorable™ and ensuing banter shows ..you know.
'Sall aboutcher crazy-Scientist-folk, and all them Number-things (n' Brains) ... n'[ Shit-fer-brains..who Knoze? ]

Still, agree: its unfunniness is not-to-Die-for.
New protip: when making a funny, make it funny
That was about as funny as lard.
New My thought too. But hard to tell if it was a failed attempt at a funny, that just wasn't, or serious
     cmon you knew it had to be out there, gloal warming causes more solar eclipses - (boxley) - (15)
         Life's too short to read stuff like that. - (Another Scott) - (10)
             finish your bowl of wheatabix then relax, it was posted in jest -NT - (boxley) - (1)
                 I know. Still, life is too short. -NT - (Another Scott)
             talk aboucher Synchronicity (those two links !!) - (Ashton) - (7)
                 You're right about "the ravages of digitalization on Modrin hippocampi" - (Another Scott) - (6)
                     Audio books while driving FTW -NT - (drook) - (3)
                         My commute is usually only about 20-25 minutes. - (Another Scott) - (1)
                             Narrators must be coached to read slowly - (drook)
                         might try that after my 6 month free satelitte service is over, till then - (boxley)
                     You must recall though (in such a self-made book-sparse predicament) - (Ashton) - (1)
                         :-) Yup. "My brain is full" isn't just a joke. -NT - (Another Scott)
         Worst thing about it is... - (CRConrad) - (1)
             Well for a start: he self-describes as a Deplorable™ and ensuing banter shows ..you know. - (Ashton)
         protip: when making a funny, make it funny - (pwhysall) - (1)
             My thought too. But hard to tell if it was a failed attempt at a funny, that just wasn't, or serious -NT - (CRConrad)

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