While you’re clearly passionate about this, that’s not how science works. The default claim is not by default true. Instead science calls it the null hypothesis. Then a rigorous study is performed to try to disprove the null hypothesis with a percent certainty. Failure to refute the null hypothesis often constrains the possible domain, which is where the philosophy “God of the gaps” comes from. What this structure does is promotes new out of the box thinking for very hard problems, even if they seem they actually are not provable or outright wrong. The tactic of trying to overwhelm the scientific process of very strong null hypotheses and weak counter arguments is called a gish gallop.
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I think you may be conflating burden of proof with the effort involved in that burden. Without a rigorous effort, the default claim is less strong and has not stood up to scrutiny. While it may seem too obvious for such things, we now know that science and physics can get really weird and complex… So ideas like “I think therefore I am”, first cause / Kalam, all the way to modern logic and number theory, all bolster claims of Occam’s Razor violation in a rigorous way instead of hand waving. We can think the outcome is certain and a waste of time, but really out of it has come some fundamental and valuable research into logic.
We know this now, due to in large part very smart people trying to prove it can be done in scientific ways with real philosophical and logic systems, and failing… Not just non-believers saying it’s obvious.
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Dull Men's Club@lemmy.world•The Work Phishing Email Test Was Suddenly Halted
1·2 months agoThose should be validated external senders and links, else they are spam or phishing by default.
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Dull Men's Club@lemmy.world•The Work Phishing Email Test Was Suddenly Halted
2·2 months agoGood systems will separate and tag verified internal from external communication so spoofing isn’t a thing. As well they should validate links to internal sites as safe. At least then they don’t get these types of reports.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Supreme Court rules Rastafari man can’t sue Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocksEnglish
2·3 months agoYes which is insane. Even the motto in god we trust should not appear on anything government related, and it should have nothing to do with if people like it or not. It should be disallowed by default because it’s illegal to do so.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Supreme Court rules Rastafari man can’t sue Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocksEnglish
3·3 months agoAll governments, both state and fed, should have policies that have nothing to do with and may often entirely ignore religious preferences. Since religion is arbitrary, it leads to all kinds of crazy things, like it’s against my religion to be incarcerated. Religion should be entirely ignored by lawful regulated process, and should only exist in private.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Extreme heat cancels extreme heat conference in LondonEnglish
14·3 months agoPopulation statistics says otherwise. It appears we cannot.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras (Raspberry Pi Zero 2W)!English
9·4 months agoNow hack ring cameras so existing installed cams can connect to your own hosted network.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Pastor Clarifies That Giant, Shiny Trump Statue Worshippers Love Is NOT An IdolEnglish
3·4 months agoThey all worship idols all the time and apply some mental gymnastics bullshit to pretend they don’t. It’s wild.
It implies worse though, doesn’t have to be bad. Worse gets deprecated just the same.
That’s more or less a lie too. There is not a lot of good research about it, but coffee is generally considered good for people due to the antioxidant capacity. The main concerns for children are sleep and food being affected, which is unlikely with a sip in the morning across an entire day.
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•World Map: Daggerfall vs SkyrimEnglish
2·6 months agoWhy haven’t people filled it in
Lives in fantasy land with $ not meaning usd.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 YearsEnglish
31·7 months agoThat’s just naive in this context.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 YearsEnglish
12·7 months agoThat is for you to decide
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 YearsEnglish
12·7 months agoYou should look inside yourself. At what level would your mind accept that you are at war? At what level would you accept that losses to your group are acceptable if lesser than your enemy? Keep in mind, if your answer is none, then the enemy wins via attrition.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 YearsEnglish
18·7 months agoI mean, who is it? Is it more my enemy or my friend?
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Couple left with $200k bill after baby born in USEnglish
5·7 months agoWas likely 2 hours a day actual attended care, 1000 a day, 90k for 3 months, plus rent, food, materials, another 500 a day. That’s $135-155k even with conservative care in nicu. In a real nicu that would be 10x



Medical care is optional and premium in the US for everyone.