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The webpage clearly states that the list is of foundational books of greco-roman civilization. And SJC is an american university. What do you expect?
Also, fetishism? Greek classics are the foundation of european civilization. That's like going to a christian seminary and whining about their fetishism of the bible.
> But it's a much larger problem in Mathematics where the field is essentially unrecognizable from the way it would've been taught in 1920 or whatever.
The foundation of european mathematics goes back to the ancient greeks. It's a foundational books list.
> Russell is predictably floating around (see paragraph 1) even though... well, yawn.
Are you serious?
Two reasonable justifications are checking for steroids/PEDs and making sure no males participate in female sports. Just a guess though.
That's a tiny privileged group of people living in an era where you flaunted your status and wealth by being chubby. You are talking about the 1% of the 1%. They are not representative of the population as a whole. The average height of an american revolutionary soldier was 5'3". A more representative sample of the population as a whole. And they certainly weren't obese. You can go to museums and see the guns they carried and the clothes (tiny) they wore.
I don't think there was an obesity issue before industrialization, especially industrial farming which led to abundance of food.
No. You are describing advancement, not revolution. Physics revolutions cause paradigm shifts. The difference between relativity ( refinement ) and quantum physics ( revolution ).
> So, for instance, gr gives similar predictions to to Newtonian gravity in an appropriate limit.
GR wasn't a revolution. It was adding onto and refining newtonian physics. As in newton gave us the laws of gravity, einstein showed us what gravity is.
> It is possible that relativity will be refined by further developments (quantum gravity?)
That's impossible because relativity cannot exist in a quantum world. Relativity/newtonian physics is deterministic, quantum physics is non-deterministic. Quantum physics gives us true randonmess whereas the relativistic world cannot.
> Hoping that exotic physics will allow ftl travel is like hoping that an exotic theory of gravity
No. I'm just pointing out that it's silly and naive to assume that physics will remain stagnant forever. Forever being the key word. Especially, as I pointed out, since modern physics cannot account for 95% of matter.
2000 years ago, someone could reasonably say man would never reach space because the current understanding of physics was so lacking. Today someone could also say man would never travel between the stars. But they would be assuming that no advancements in physics and knowledge would occur.
It's just manufactured propaganda. The good thing about this is you can see how propaganda ( aka news/media ) coordinates with the pentagon/intelligence/etc.
You are right, it's the US, EU and Russia. I guess sometimes it takes 3 to tango. It's rather disingenuous to say it's all russia.
Rules do not apply to establishment corporate entities. You can find SNL sketches that use the N word on youtube. Youtube rents videos on their platform that has racist, etc language. Late night "comedy" shows could use vulgar terms/jokes without getting demonetized, banned, etc. It's just you can't. It's about reigning in the voice of the little guys and protecting corporate interests. Remember when youtube was about giving a platform to "you" - the little guys? The funny thing is that these guys support banning tiktok and giving youtube a greater monopoly. They, of all people, should be demanding more options. Where are they going to go once rumble does the same thing. After all, rumble is controlled by the same interests that control youtube.
Heck all students in american education ( K-12 ) should be taught latin at the very least. Why we stopped...
You think this...
"Now go and completely destroy the entire Amalekite nation—men, women, children, babies, cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and donkeys." ( 1 Samuel 15:3 )
is better than
"Blessed are the the meek for they shall inherit the earth..."
You think an ethno-supremacist ideology that says only jews are human and saved by god and non-jews are animals is better than an ideology that believes all humans can be saved by god?
You might want to read the bible once in your life.
The point here isn't about editing or altering, it's about who gets to edit and alter.
There was a time when the current model of physics couldn't allow for traveling to different planets.
Never say never.
> It does look like Wikipedia is ahead of Twitter in the free speech absolutist game if it prefers being blocked to compliance.
Wikipedia is not pro-free speech. They are advocates of "woke" culture and have censored/altered/etc many wikipedia articles. Any wikipedia article that was critical of western "religion" ( wokism, lgbt, zionism, etc ) are removed, edited, altered, etc.
Does pakistan or china jail 93 year old women for not believing in the official holocaust narrative?
https://news.yahoo.com/93-old-german-jailed-again-180620382....
I don't think all the natives exterminated within the "west" ( whatever that is ), black enslaved and currently imprisoned, etc would believe such nonsense. Why limit it to "within its own territories". Do the civil rights of people outside of the west not count? You know the tens of millions of arabs, vietnamese, filipinos, africans, south americans, etc we murdered?
The funny thing is most of the land we call "the west" is territory stolen from natives, aborigines, etc through genocide. The west set the bar as low as it can get. Don't think china nor pakistan will ever reach that level.