Already given.
I thought they got together on weekends to fuck each other.
Peter, perhaps you should drop the subject. I would hate to have magnetic therapy become a taboo topic.
When I my OCD tries to take over I find Velcroing magnets to my forehead helps me by reminding me that I look like a fool. North poles in, of course. To make sure I don’t accidentally mix poles I cut the magnets in two and throw away the south poles.
So basically you’re fighting this innoccuous joke as a proxy for harsh responses in general, and you don’t care how much you have to twist logic to make it work.
You know, if it wasn’t a bad example and your arguments weren’t so inept, I’d agree with you that a lot of “skeptical activism” is a lot better at getting laughs from the choir than at convincing anyone, but instead you’re illustrating a different issue plaguing humanity in general: Our inability to step back and reevaluate things objectively.
As a minor comment, if it’s important to know which pole of a magnet touches the skin, you need a reference device. A cheap compass will do. I suppose you could float the magnet in a bucket or balance it on a string and see how it aligns with Earth, if practical. In either case, you’d have to know enough about your local geography to recognize which way is north, or you could set up a crude sundial…
This could get complicated, I recognize.
I think it explains why there are fewer people on the southern hemisphere. They experience the bad kind of magnetic flux.
Does any proponent claim a distinction between the fields created by permanent magnets and those created by induction?
On an almost entirely unrelated note, I think I first learned about the concept of monopole magnets while playing Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, circa 2000. It was one of the tech advances a player could discover. In retrospect, I think the Alpha Centauri tech tree compares quite unfavorably to the ones in the Civilization series because the latter were historical and graspable, while the former was mired in arbitrary sci-fi terminology:
Civilization: Your civilization has discovered gunpowder. This allows construction of musketeer units, the saltpeter resource will appear on the map, and your civilization can now research chemistry.
Me: Cool!
Alpha Centauri: Your faction has discovered monopole magnets. This will allow you to technobabble your technobabbles and construct technobabble units with the technobabble capability.
Me: Sure, whatever.
This can’t work… Stop spreading your goddamn lies!
“Knock, knock.”
Hey, Morris, come back. It’s the opening of a joke. Now you say, “who’s there?” No, there’s nobody at the door. Hey, close the door, the ac is on. Oh, Christ, somebody go get Morris; he’s searching outside to see who’s there.
If you think it’s funny to knock on someone’s door, only to draw them out and waste their time with looking for the knocker, then I can only pity you and your devotion to deception and evil.
Plus you might turn society against answering their doors. Even if you hypothetically came up with the best knock-knock joke in history, guaranteed to get a laugh, what makea you think YOU of all people could tell a good joke? I’m personally very disappointed in you. Society will become convinced that all door-knocks are filthy lies. World hunger and astrology will become invincible. Nazis too, probably.
If lying about Hitler is unethical, where does that place trying to drop bombs on him?
As long as you’re honest about the bombing…
My God, he’ll get public sympathy! He’ll be free to invade monoPoland *and it will be all our fault! *
You and your lies! There is no monoPoland. Germany invaded West-Poland, and there’s no such thing as a magnet with only a west pole. Let alone a magnet with west/east poles.
Your missinformation could single handedly destroy all we know about European Geography. Humanity itself, could literally be lost.
I’m gonna make a fortune selling a home-cure system involving strapping a whole bunch of “Up” quarks to people’s foreheads with velcro straps.
Charming, but strange.
Go after the gay market, sell Top and Bottom quarks.
Doesn’t Pixar own the rights to those?
Way too close to a personal attack.
Back off.
[ /Moderating ]