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Yes you definitely have a point. It's not the same thing but this is more along the lines of what I was trying to express about the unintended consequences of taxing the rich or any other form of socialism or nonglobal environmental regulations for that matter. Thanks for playing fair. But rich peo...

Jeff Bezos' move to Miami shows just how hard it is to tax the rich. But your point was: Investors [in fossil fuel extraction] can just go find oil shale in a different country with lower taxes and cheaper labor. What Bezos owns is shares. Miami has lower taxes so he can just move there, since shar...

Honestly, the single most insightful modern interpretation of Mormonism is the Book of Mormon musical. I saw it on Smithmas, and suddenly the brilliance of the whole thing was clear as day. Book of Mormon the musical casts a young missionary in the role of Joseph Smith. He is the one making up stor...

But it appears that his wife who knew him best concluded he was easily fooled, and his finances needed to be watched closely. As the South Park version repeatedly put it: "Joseph Smith was called a prophet - (dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb!)" But when it came to Mrs. Harris's (shall we say) skeptical att...

How anyone would believe ... just boggles the mind. The key to all this nonsense taking on a permanent existence is that it lasted long enough to be passed on to the children of the first believers. A religion taught to you by your parents is a much more permanent feature of the mind than a religio...

Excuse me? Companies that extract coal, oil and gas from US soil and rocks can leave "and take their wealth with them"? How can they do that? It would be extremely easy to ensure that anybody who extracted fossil fuel resources in the US had to pay tax on what they extracted, wherever their corpora...

To many atheists, the idea of not existing after death is just as peaceful as not existing before birth. You and I were in oblivion for billions of years. It caused none of us one bit of inconvenience or pain. It’s a natural thing to want the end to dovetail nicely into that beginning. Didn't Mark ...

He was probably pretty desperate to get off the farm. I think a lot of people were in those days. Most of them sighed and got on with the miserable job, but maybe that was as much because they lacked Smith's talent as because he lacked their virtue. Maybe Smith wasn't really more unscrupulous than ...

Physics Guy wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:11 am

Maybe Smith would have done more constructive things, too, if he had had Faraday's kinds of chances.

Indeed he might. But he did not, so he turned to glass-looking, treasure seeking and religious fantasy.

Why, for example, are fossil fuel companies, some of the most profitable companies in history, getting massive government subsidies? Because they would simply leave the country and take their wealth with them. [...] Excuse me? Companies that extract coal, oil and gas from US soil and rocks can leav...