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| Ian.M:
--- Quote from: Simon on May 23, 2022, 06:01:32 pm ---Actually the fast spam busting on here is mainly due to the quality of membership who do care about the quality of forum they use and will report stuff that looks suspicious having become experts at spotting it. Rarely do I not do something about a user reported for spamming or being a potential spammer as most people reporting it are spot on and often reports contain good background information that helps limit the research we have to do to validate the claim that "uh, I think it is spam" --- End quote --- Yes. e.g. if I report something as 'Spam', I've already checked the links for you, or if I report 'Spammer' they've made multiple spam link posts. However, our contribution to eliminating spam couldn't work without the mod team's quick response to reports. e.g. another forum I sometimes use is notorious for their slow-acting moderators, who seem to be limited to a few hours per weekday during office hours for their HQ. As a result spam posted after close of business on a Friday will still be there for the next 60 hours or so, and longer if the weekend is adjacent to a public holiday! |
| hans:
--- Quote from: Peter Taylor on May 22, 2022, 02:57:09 pm ---The only way to create something from nothing is to break it in two. For example: There is no high tide without low tide. There is no night without day. There is no good luck without bad luck (otherwise luck would have no meaning). There is no happiness without sadness. :) --- End quote --- Life is a sine wave. It has ups and downs. The period of a human sine wave is roughly 80 yrs I'd say, a typical life expectancy in a modern western country nowadays. It may get longer in the future as we improve healthcare, society, etc. Maybe even indefinite if we can reverse aging? But, what about the sine wave of the universe? Does this mean the expansion may stop at point, that it will start to contract again? But that's the rate of change.. you get volume by integration. Does that imply there is also (going to be) a universe with negative volume? I digress.For me that is a rhetorical question. I agree with your statements. We as humans tend to converge to a psychological neutral state, no matter the experiences we've had in the past. Some things in daily life may remind of us our past.. some memories that are important to hold on to, other memories important to work through, but that ultimately makes the high and low tides we are all faced with. |
| Gregg:
Life is too complex for trite and simple answers. However a lot of people seem to gravitate toward the trite and simple; a look at social media will confirm. Human life is no more special than any other animal life. The humans seem hell-bent on over populating our only planet to the point of eventually making it uninhabitable for our species. Over population is seldom if ever mentioned because that isn’t the answer people want. The universe is probably infinite beyond human comprehension. |
| Simon:
Well we have done a fairly good job of understanding the universe but at the end of the day, we can't go there and whatever happens there, we can't do anything about. But it's nice to know about. |
| Ed.Kloonk:
Don't forget your towel. Our new friend might have been just celebrating Towel Day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day |
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