many police programs incentivize or measure an officers efficiency based on the number of arrests or tickets they produce.

I call that very unethical.

Try harder :) and read the ‘pessimists’ part, too.

Imagine a time when you need it (for example, your old language isn’t spoken anymore where you live)

This site

Some random lawyer.

like German police can and will use your words against you in court.

Again: police records and collects stuff. They do not argue in court.

What the accused has told the police will be usable by all sides equally in court.

Police have to collect proof, whether it works for or against a suspect. Other suspects are possible, too. That follows directly from the general presumption of innocence. Only the judge can end that presumption, with his verdict.

Btw police don’t argue in court.

(Germany here)

This is the way.

You are right LOL: I do not approve. But somehow I like the lazy approach :)

Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Never for you.

What shitty country is that?

Look at these equations:

1^3 = 1^2

1^3 + 2^3 = (1+2)^2

1^3 + 2^3 +3^3 = (1+2+3)^2

1^3 + 2^3 +3^3 +4^3 = (1+2+3+4)^2

Question:

Can it go on like this forever, is it always a true equation? If yes, why? If no, why?

Don’t you complain when you have paid for 7 but got 9! 😉

The 7 names of the antique greek Muses:

Calliope
Clio
Polyhymnia
Euterpe
Terpsichore
Erato
Melpomene
Thalia
Urania

In the dotcom era things were easy. You could set up a website and make a business out of it in no time. Small effort. If it didn’t perform, you deleted it and tried the next one.

No “Big Tech” that was ruling and owning everything, like today. The existing telco’s were actually big, but they had no clue. Lawmakers had no clue either.

About 15 years ago there was a saying that optimists are learning Russian now.

Pessimists Chinese.

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These are probably the world’s cheapest cars:

https://motorfloor.com/blog/top-three-wheeler-companies-india/

Usamerican investors love to hear the bigmouth stuff from Massa Elon. In addition, they expect some support by the next bigmouth president.

Thank you for answering at least one of my questions, the last one, in so many words.
EOD.

Mercury’s orbit

I wasn’t talking about Astronomy at all.

Lorentz transformation

That was needed only for the end results. Not in the introductory thoughts that I was talking about.

Fizeau’s experiment, the fact that the speed of light is the same

Good point here. That was in fact one of the starting points for Einstein.

There was no way special relativity could’ve been found even half a century earlier

Again you are looking at the end results only, when the theory was complete.

Have you even read my comment?

Have you even read Einstein?

If they live with you for a long while already, then they do not need any of the extra food in your trap. They have plenty.

Therefore you might be able to catch a few, but you can never get rid of them with your trap.