Pure logic does not include axioms like “you need to breathe or you don’t”, nor does logic lead from the axioms “not all beings need to breathe” and “you can’t breathe in space” to conclusions such as either “all creatures who breathe cannot survive in space” or “no beings who can survive in space are able to breathe.”

A and not-B does not lead to if-not-B-then-A.

“Logic” doesn’t generally mean what you’re trying to say here. Well written stories and fictional universes have consistent reasonable logic that only differs from our own wirh intentional changes like “magic is real” or narrative biases like “we would have told this story a different way if the hero lost.”

A better term for what comic book stories with a mish-mash of power definitions and unexplained characterization lack is consistency.

(But, as with “literally”, the inaccurate and informal usage you probably mean to decry the medium’s unrealistic conventions is probably in the dictionary already, thanks to the cryoto-Jewish space-elves of a certain fun but overrated television show)

Since women are people, and some people believe stupidly bigoted things, it follows that some women believe the stupidly bigoted thing you describe.

None of the women I know would admit to such a belief, though.

If Trump were under care of a physician for his mental issues, he’d have been institutionalized back in 2015.

The data I heard included the VA actually having better patient satisfaction ratings than any other government medical system, falling short I think only of private concierge care for billionaires who employ their doctors directly.

Plus there’s a political upside to sharing facilities with the most “deserving” welfare recipients.

Talking about “socalism” in a language beset by capitalist oligarchs applying the label to things as mundane as “feeding children” really does require we draw a distinction between the numerous resultant definitions.

Some people use “socialism” to mean the anti-capitalist ideal you describe, while others mean either “thing I dont want my taxes to provide” or “the things those guys keep blocking.”

It’s a grammatical one, not a philosophical one. And, now that I think of it, it’s also one with a definite answer.

If you waved a magic wand and had a chicken come out of a leathery egg lay by a lizard, a watery egg lay by a fish, or the sort of large egg an oatrich usually comes from, we wouldn’t call any of those a “chicken egg”

And, conversely, if by super-advanced genetic engineering we made chickens who lay eggs with bacon or cheese or just all whites, we’d call those eggs “chicken eggs” when we talk about the shells themselves and not the contents therein.

So the chicken came first. And the first chickens hatched from the eggs of some other bird.

You’re thinking about lagrange points – the places in a (dissimilar?) two-body system where the gravitational pull (and kinetic energy?) from both is equal and thus relatively stable.

Not a physicist, obviously.

Also, be aware that the effect of gravity diminishes with distance. We’re pulled towards the earth at about 9.8m/s/s here on the surface, but as you get further away that 9.8 drops off on an exponential curve.

This gives me a chance to repeat the best argument for why Star Wars is higher tech than Star Trek. When the enterprise gets to a planet they orbit, and the artificial gravity is only an internal issue. In star wars we see gravity shift as ships list due to damage or even fall towards planets, because they aren’t orbiting; they’re just hovering above the planet, presumably with their artificial gravity just working enough to stop the ship itself from falling.

Being cursed with a memory good enough to recall some of my math teachers, I’m absolutely willing to believe that someone as comically incompetent as you describe could be a math teacher.

If AI actually adds value, it should be trivial to demonstrate that value-add in a way that passes scientific rigor.

The underlying problem is that we don’t have a good way to measure code value. Software quality is most closely coporable to a weird combination of scientific paper, mechanical diagnostic, and toy instructuon. And we don’t have good ways to measure those, either.

There was apparently one study from Stanford:

https://medium.com/@manusf08/does-ai-really-boost-developer-productivity-a-stanford-study-of-100-000-devs-has-answers-4f64c64ebe97

Note that the headline is misleading – stanford apparently trainded an AI model to “rate code” in a way that agreed with some of their staff and then ran that on a bunch of projects. The “good at simple and new, bad at complex and old” matches my intuition, but isn’t really a stronger test than counting minutes spent in a project or dollars spent on programming with or without AI.

And all AI output is slop. It’s just that for some things slop is good enough.

~Which really should be an argument more for discarding those things than boiling oceans to generate more of them, but capitalism loves doing wasteful things~

Humans living is the whole point of civilization, though. We don’t need the LLM to pay for the techbro carbon footprint or olichsrch child abuse, so we should similarly exclude the human’s base sustensnce and survival from their budget.

You can include the human writer’s coffee, music, and writing snacks / cigarettes.

AI is less a chainsaw that it is a guide-wire.

It doesn’t accelerate the actual work. It provides a fairly elaborate way to do an adjacent task, which is still entirely dependent on the actual work being done correctly.

Knowledge work is a lot more like a professional restaurant chef than it cutting down trees.

Cats are apex predators, and your friend is subsidizing their pet far past what the local bird population can support. (Plus indoor cats live longer.)

Unless you’re on an actual working farm, household cats belong indoors.

Because nurses and doctors aren’t lawyers, and have different concerns that justify and limit anti-testimonial privilege.

To illustrate, consider who should do what if a person approaches them while covered in someone else’s blood and viscera.

• the spouse and should be free to offer comfort and advice in what was definitely a traumatic situation.
• the priest should be able to take confession without regard to temporal concern.
• the lawyer will need to start preparing a criminal defense
• the doctor and nurse should be able to heal their wounds, but also really should wonder if there’s someone else out there in need

I absolutely won’t defend the current system where patients need to be lawyers to know when they should lie to their doctors. Or where the CDC can’t say *warning, DomeGuy has COVID!" but the DA can demand my doctor tattle on my prescriptions.

That’s a weird way to pronounce “we’re an abusive workplace and I advise you to form a union.”