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"Theory" of Evolution (SMBC)

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i would say yes. there likely isn't going to be some fundamental re-thinking of evolution. sure, there are details and interactions we surely don't know about yet, but the general principles and mechanisms are astoundingly clear.

on the other hand, gravity is central to the problem of combining general relativity and the standard model. so afaik, something significant will need to change in at least one of them to resolve the issue of gravity. so we know we have a pretty massive gap in our understanding somewhere.

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Every base is base 10

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we'd only be able to represent bases for numbers with one digit though because what does base 15+1 mean? the 15 could be in any base higher than 5. the clearest way would probably be to just represent it with lines or something "base ||||||||||"

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i said this in a reply, but think it's important enough so I'll put it on its own too.

to me, this is very reminiscent of the paradox of tolerance. just because we want an open platform doesn't mean we need to, or should, support those who do not have that same thing in mind. and allowing it is at the risk of allowing them to operate unencumbered and most likely take advantage of open stance.

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[gasp]

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we also live in a world which has now known that premise and used it for 300 years, which makes it seem much more trivial than it was at the time.

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I'm really sorry this happened to you OP.

I would really recommend that you consider getting a custom domain for your email. many are not that expensive and if you do, then you can just point that domain at whatever email provider you want without changing your email on the services.

in this scenario, it would let you setup that domain on another provider and at least get access to any emails going forward.