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  1. HonestJoe

    Crypto-currency and the role it's likely to play in the upcoming American presidential election.

    Because you're equating reported figures for entirely different things and also the effect you're talking about would only apply to investors holding crypto, not people who just use it intermittently for making payments (in fact, they may well prefer stability over price shifts in either...
  2. HonestJoe

    Crypto-currency and the role it's likely to play in the upcoming American presidential election.

    I don't accept anything via AI generation if it doesn't have a direct source, since AI can easily be mistaken or manipulated. Taken on face value though, it is worth noting that question does combine invested or used and yet is a much lower figure than others claimed for "currently own". Yes...
  3. HonestJoe

    Crypto-currency and the role it's likely to play in the upcoming American presidential election.

    Maybe most who are speaking out on the question in the subset of the community you choose to view. I would expect that most people wouldn't choose a presidential candidate on the basis of a single potential side-effect of their election. Sorry, but that's just rubbish! Those kind of figures only...
  4. HonestJoe

    Why do a large number of people seem to think that 'science is 100% fact' and infallible?

    Well thanks, but much more importantly, in the bulk of the post which you tried to skip over, I'm right.
  5. HonestJoe

    Why do a large number of people seem to think that 'science is 100% fact' and infallible?

    You're still missing the key point. The people you're describing exist (though maybe not as widely or definitively as you imagine) but what they are denying or supporting isn't science. In general, it is about people (individuals or classes of people) and typically determined on whether those...
  6. HonestJoe

    Why do a large number of people seem to think that 'science is 100% fact' and infallible?

    You're not entirely wrong there but my question is this; where is the word "science" in any of that? As I said in my initial response, people can often get stuck on particular beliefs or conclusions, even in the face of contradictory information, but that isn't necessarily attributed to...
  7. HonestJoe

    Why do a large number of people seem to think that 'science is 100% fact' and infallible?

    What proportion of assumption vs fact are you basing your assertion that "so many" people believe this on? In my experience, the vast majority of people have little or no direct relationship with science, only with conclusions presented to them, often passing through multiple other people...
  8. HonestJoe

    Trump Says He Had Every Right to Interfere in the 2020 Election

    To be fair, I think that's always been his stated position; He doesn't deny many of the reported events and actions took place (and couldn't, given than many were recorded or otherwise strongly evidenced) but he asserts that nothing he did or said was inappropriate in the context of what he...
  9. HonestJoe

    Marmosets call each other by name.

  10. HonestJoe

    Where Does Wisdom Come From?

    I guess that depends of the level of accuracy you're looking for. I can be pretty much certain that I will die on Earth within the next 100 years but I'd be unlikely to be able to give you the correct address or date of my death. No, I think that deep down most people are entirely conscious of...
  11. HonestJoe

    A simple question for hamas supporter's

    Probably fewer, unlikely zero. How many would have died if the Israeli government hadn't responded with their scorched earth policy? It's not as if this conflict started on October 7th though. You could go back and forth with dozens of different events, attacks, policies etc. from multiple...
  12. HonestJoe

    ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL i.e. government

    No, that is not a fundamental aspect of the meaning of the word government. There may well be elements of that in the operation of governments in practice, but it is not a requirement, especially at the scale you're presenting it to be. In principle, most governments have legal systems which...
  13. HonestJoe

    ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL i.e. government

    Not necessarily. It depends on how broadly you're applying the term "government" and the various structures and systems in any given jurisdiction, but most truly democratic nations have a range of checks and balances, with elections, oppositions, heads of state and independent judiciaries. There...
  14. HonestJoe

    Non Christians are more evil than all Christians combined

    First, I'm sure that for the vast majority of people you have day-to-day interactions with, you'll not know what their religious beliefs are. It could well be that you're assuming that those who treat you well must be Christian, but that doesn't make it so. Secondly, "non Christian" covers a...
  15. HonestJoe

    Why Doesn't Scotland want to be separated from England ?

    Sure, but they didn't come out of Scotland. :cool:
  16. HonestJoe

    Why Doesn't Scotland want to be separated from England ?

    I'd have expected a "Proud Scotsman" to know that Scotland and England are separate, though they're both part of the United Kingdom. I'd also have expected you to know that roughly half the Scottish population do want (or, at risk of adding my own bias, think they want) independence from the UK...
  17. HonestJoe

    Can something exist and not exist at the same time ?

    When you declare that someone else is wrong, it is usually expected that you make some kind of effort to explain or demonstrate how and why their wrong. :cool: Regardless, I didn't say there isn't a philosophical question in there, only that the specific issue of the example you gave is...
  18. HonestJoe

    Atheism - a lack of belief in all gods?

    Atheism is a word. Like most words, it can be used in multiple contexts with multiple intended and/or interpreted meanings with multiple motivations. It describes an individual characteristic rather than a type of person. Anyone for whom any of the varying conventional definitions of the word...
  19. HonestJoe

    Why kids are wiser than adults: how sex deforms psyche

    No, it just means that wars (and conflict more broadly) have a multiple diverse and varied causal factors. The instinctive desire to continue and protect our genetic lines is clearly a significant one in human behaviour and society, but it is far from being the only, or even dominant one, in...
  20. HonestJoe

    Why kids are wiser than adults: how sex deforms psyche

    That is grossly over-simplistic and, I'm sure, demonstrably false. With respect, I think you're projecting your own issues on the rest of humanity.
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