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  • If the 300m people lived in the same area and you got a true random sample.

    Sunsets at 9:09 today in Michigan

    Sunsets at 8:04 today in California

    Sunsets at 8:34 today in North Carolina

    Sunsets at 7:57 today in Alabama

    Sunsets at 7:38 today in Arizona (They are on standard time)

    Sunsets at 7:13 today in Hawaii

    Sunsets at 11:36 today in Alaska

    Someone in Arizona might want the sun to set at 7:38. It’s blazing hot all day.

    Someone in Michigan might be fine with sunsetting at 8:08 with standard time.

    Someone in Alabama might not want the sun to set at 6:57.

    Someone in Hawaii probably doesn’t want the sun to set at 6:13.

    Even if you split up the 1000 people to equally represent all states, that’s only 20 people per state.





  • 1 centiyard is about equal to 1 centimeter

    1 miliyard is 3 milifeet

    1 kiloyard is 3 kilofeet

    It would be the same as the metic system having something like a “hand”

    That if you wanted to express 1/3 of a meter you could just call it 1 hand. 2/3 meter would be 2 hands.

    If you were using this metric system and knew that something had to be two hands long. You’d simply call it 2 hands instead of .66 meters or 66 centimeters.

    If something had to be 2.5 hands long it would be .825 meters or 82.5 centimeters

    Meter and yard are both random established lengths. Using miliyards or millimeters is exactly the same.

    US customary units just have smaller unit names you can call them if it is convenient. If you never wanted to use anything but yards like the metric system does meters, it’s possible. Don’t want to use miles? Then megayards.

    I do think 1 simple system that everyone uses is needed and the metric system is simple.

    But if stupid Americans can use the “difficult” system, it can’t be too hard.



  • That’s why death penalty shouldn’t exist for crimes like a wife killing a husband. You might be 99.9% sure she poisoned him, but you cannot know for sure.

    However, a school shooter caught red handed shooting a school?

    Some crimes and scenarios can warrant the death penalty in my mind

    Next argument is “what if the government framed people to execute them?”

    Why in the world would the government point out that they are executing someone?

    If the government (the rich controlled government) wants you dead they would do it quietly.

    Even something as simple as cutting your brake lines. You really think local police are going to figure out that the government had soldier 65478 tamper with your brake lines?







  • Sorry, I don’t know of any good resources off the top of my head

    Agnostic Theist

    Or

    Agnostic Atheist

    Are what the majority of people are.

    Agnostic makes the most sense because there is no “proof” a God or gods exists or doesn’t exist.

    If I walk up to a Theist or Atheist and ask for “proof,” neither side will have any.

    When you ask a Gnostic Theist that practices Christianity (but could be any religion). They will say that the Bible is “proof” and that they know that to be the truth. They claim to have the knowledge that their belief is correct.

    A Gnostic Atheist doesn’t really exist. Because they would have to believe in some knowledge that is “proof” for their belief that no God or gods could ever exist. There is no knowledge out there that proves that.

    It becomes a semantic battle of what do you call the God or gods and that “Anything is possible”

    So you can assume anyone that calls themselves Atheist is an Agnostic Atheist.

    As an example, no Atheist is going to lay down their life to die on a hill that no God or gods has ever existed. They believe that no God or gods existed, but they realize that the knowledge to prove it doesn’t exist yet.

    A Gnostic Theist will die on the hill for what they believe because they truly believe that they have the knowledge to prove it.

    Plato has a lot of good stuff to read up about religion

    But unless you want to pick a religion and roll with it on faith, agnostic is what it is.

    It’s nice to hope for a nice God or gods. That would make you Agnostic Theist.

    But if you feel like a God or gods don’t exist then you’d just be Agnostic Atheist.

    But to become religious, you’d have to read about all the different ones and see what speaks to you and decide yourself if you want to buy in or not.