:chin: Otherwise, your reply does not make anything close to a case for the claim that the Chinese intend to "swallow up one country after another", a...
One good thing that's come out of this discussion is that I've learned, partly thanks to Banno, that espouse does not mean advocate. The meanings are ...
I haven't seen anyone else seriously claim that the Chinese authorities have any such plan, or that it's a remotely probable scenario. Where do you ge...
I suspect that it's not quite right to say that the inconsistencies are mere exceptions in a basically phonetic orthography, especially because the co...
French, maybe not. But in my experience, Spanish, Italian, and Russian are much more consistent than English. Their spellings are a good guide to pron...
No, the deadline is late December I think. This is the current thread: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/12143/holiday-short-story-competition...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nly2TwK4tio Finnish heavy rock plus English folk singer, in a song about the cutting down of an ancient bristlecone pi...
Congrats! So far I've listened to Pre-Relapse and Levels of Compression and really enjoyed them. That bit in LoC at 02:57 when the bass drone comes in...
Well, as promised, I read Dune. A remarkable creation, and rightly famous I think, but not my cup of tea. By half way through I was rooting for the Ha...
I reached middle age without having had any caviar, and then I married a Russian. I don't think I've had wagyu. I had sea urchin in Spain a few times....
If I want to remember a good meal, I find it's necessary to keep doing this, to go over it in my mind and list the dishes I had out loud to someone, s...
So it's sushi but you eat what the chef decides? I like that kind of restaurant experience, because the chef ought to know best, but more to the point...
The way I see it, @"Baden" has to decide on the system to use, based on the comments here and his own judgement. Like a king after hearing from his co...
A few people have spoken in favour of keeping it simple and doing it the same as last time. I'm inclined to agree. That's what I would do if I was run...
Although... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Federation#Ideology If that's socialist, it's not the kind that appeals to me...
I wouldn't say so, but I don't really know. I haven't been able to work it out. The Communist Party is still pretty big, the second biggest party afte...
It might be a sign of the moribundity of the British Left that they were unable to take Brexit in a left-wing direction. In the last century, much of ...
I've been here for nearly two years and I only just discovered that the reason Christmas is celebrated here on January 7th is that January 7th is Dece...
Maths comedy gold. It's a good thought. A simple poll like last time, but pinned on the main page instead of just the Lounge, would probably get the m...
Interesting, but feels like a clunky workaround. EDIT: wait, isn't this how it was done the first time around? In which case, sure, I thought that was...
This looks like a good solution to me, but maybe with 180's 1 - 3 as options: "not for me", "it was ok", "loved it". Also, possibly need to restrict i...
Partly doable. We can do a poll in each story, but we can't hide the votes or scores and we can't stop someone from voting for their own story or iden...
Still hanging in there with the being thing I see. The point I would make here is that this is irrelevant to how the word being is used in philosophy....
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