We are unequal. Markets consisting of voluntary exchanges eliminate extreme fantasies. Any ‘collective agreement’ is of necessity an extreme fantasy.
https://www.quora.com/If-humans-cant-agree-on-anything-from-Donald-Trumps-sanity-to-the-existence-of-God-how-can-one-make-an-objective-rational-decision-Is-there-any-scientific-way-to-cut-through-the-noise
It depends upon the fissionable material, but roughly 11–30lbs. It’s possible to make a backpack weapon of about 50–70 pounds and it’s ‘rumoured’ that the Russians tried to make one or more of them. That would (I am guessing) result in an explosion on the scale of 10–20 Tons of TNT. Which is a lot but it’s not all that impressive. Usually we measure weapons by the kiloton (1000 tons). Furthermore there is a sort of maximum value of practical nuclear weapons, because they get very heavy. So for example, US W-80 cruise missile yields 150kt.
You would need about five of those for Manhattan, and I can’t imagine how many for los angeles (which is a huge territory).
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-minimum-yield-of-a-nuclear-bomb-How-small-can-we-make-a-nuclear-explosion
GOOD QUESTION, BUT NOT QUITE RIGHT.
Because by and large, use of the scientific method (using observation and measurement to eliminate ignorance, error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, fictionalism and deceit, eventually, incrementally, provides more and more precise descriptions of the universe – even if it is very often, two steps forward and one step back.
Psychology was entirely pseudoscience. Social science is largely pseudoscience – and those findings that are not, are ‘unpleasant’, and avoided by the field. Much of mainstream economics is very close to pseudoscience, even if it is empirical. Most of political science is pseudoscientific nonsense. Most if not all of philosophy is pseudoscientific nonsense. However, if we look at the hard sciences, meaning physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, computer science, and mathematics, those fields (particularly physics) have been best at not claiming falsehoods. Whereas all other disciplines excel at claiming falsehoods. We are primarily constrained at this point by the fact that we cannot produce tools to test those things we wish to – they’re too expensive or require too much energy, and we don’t have the technology yet.
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-people-so-sure-the-current-experts-in-science-cant-be-wrong-when-history-has-shown-they-have-been-wrong-many-times-before
Yes, and very proud of it.
https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Are-you-white
GOOD QUESTION, AND THE ANSWER IS “EASILY”.
Quite easily. Statistically it is very close to a certainty. Why? Becuase (uncomfortable truth) the difference between first world and third world countries is the size of the underclass. First world countries, during the medieval period, were successful in reducing the underclasses through aggressive use of law, war, malthusian crop yields, and disease.
Today’s third world countries cannot produce goods and services of sufficient value to compete on the world’s markets. Ergo there is no means of organizing a voluntary organization of production (consumer capitalist economy).
In painful terms, the reality is that as a nation’ s IQ drops below 100, the ability to compete on the world stage is increasinlly difficult, and as far as I am able to determine, that number will only increase over time.
If you add to that problem, a regressive religion, or a familial low trust culture, or a tendency for corruption, or the ‘resource curse’, then the problem is impossible to overcome.
As far as I know, south africa and brazil are the most likely futures available to the western world.
Americans have imported vast numbers of third world underclasses who are breeding at rates far above those with superior genetic markers. So as far as I can see, there is no way of fixing this problem now.
The only prudent peoples on the planet today are the swiss and the japanese.
https://www.quora.com/Can-the-USA-become-a-third-world-country
block the wire transfer system, visa, mastercard, banking. That was the threat they gave putin when he invaded Ukraine.
https://www.quora.com/How-could-the-US-cripple-the-Russian-economy-and-military-in-one-move-without-them-seeing-it-coming
Trump was âhiredâ to gut the federal bureaucracy – especially that bureaucracy built under clinton/obama that was attempting to use the USA to finance and force a âsingle world governmentâ or what is colloquially called âglobalismâ. This is the dream of the communist/socialist/postmodern left. By eliminating competing states, they eliminate competition, and eliminate choice.
https://www.quora.com/Is-Trump-intentionally-âdumbing-downâ-federal-agencies-with-unqualified-appointments-to-better-exert-personal-control-over-them
its not. its that we prosecute minor crimes aggressively.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-crime-rate-so-high-in-the-United-States
Because being kind to people creates a sense of obligation and we do not want that sense of obligation to others unless they are the very few people closest to us. Otherwise it limits our ability to act in our self interest.
(yes, that is really why)
https://www.quora.com/Why-the-more-I-am-kind-with-someone-the-less-he-respects-me
It’s on natural law. The constitution was an attempt at natural law. Period.
https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-demonstrate-that-the-US-is-not-founded-on-Christian-morality-and-ethics