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Yeah I think it's fair that we know something about @"Agustino"'s work, because he won't stop harping on about it. That and the magnificent jets of ur...
March 08, 2018 at 18:07
I seem to recall that some of the Leavers were banned or deleted or something. Last time I checked I couldn't get in. Got my posts file before that th...
March 08, 2018 at 09:30
The developers kindly deployed an anti-Agustino plugin for me a while ago.
March 07, 2018 at 11:37
In: #MeToo  — view comment
I just read an interesting article on Aeon that might make it clearer what I meant when I said this: How do we understand sexual pleasure in this age ...
March 07, 2018 at 11:27
The spammer? We didn't have anything in place to defend against spam. I turned on spam protection today so I'm hoping it won't happen again.
March 07, 2018 at 11:12
I guess I was thinking that facticity--which the laws give us, or can give us--does amount to descriptiveness, even if they don't amount to the metaph...
March 07, 2018 at 10:41
Just on the subject of descriptiveness (and sorry if I'm inappropriately fisking here)... Didn't she already supply the solution here: That is, the la...
March 07, 2018 at 10:11
Huh? As far as I can see the name came up first in this comment: So I guess you'd have to ask Caldwell.
March 07, 2018 at 09:40
Spam.
March 07, 2018 at 09:32
We can't impose a delay, but there are two things we can do. There is a setting to require staff approval of all new users, and we can enable two anti...
March 07, 2018 at 07:03
Cool, but note that it's not your fisking that I expressed admiration for, but the parts of your posts in which you launch into your ranty opinions, w...
March 06, 2018 at 17:44
From a quick glance, it looks as if you've broken down his post quite fairly, leaving whole arguments intact. I tend to use "fisking" when it's more e...
March 06, 2018 at 17:05
:up:
March 06, 2018 at 17:01
It shouldn't be on a philosophy forum.
March 06, 2018 at 17:00
Of course you do. Whereas you are somehow free of personal judgement? What you are saying might, as usual, be accurately rephrased as "I am right". We...
March 06, 2018 at 16:20
I think Fisking is useful when you need to simply destroy an interlocutor, such as a racist or pseudophilosopher or religious evangelist. But then we'...
March 06, 2018 at 16:09
Actually Gus, you're unusual among Fiskers in that you do put forward your own positive opinions. You put yourself on the line, and that is admirable,...
March 06, 2018 at 16:01
Well spotted. Not such a big problem, I wouldn't think (how did you uncover it?). We don't have direct access to the code to implement a fix, and ther...
March 06, 2018 at 15:49
Most often, in my experience, it is not. Thoughts often take more than a sentence to express, and habitual Fiskers break up these thoughts so as to ma...
March 06, 2018 at 15:39
You must mean To Mega Therion
March 05, 2018 at 23:00
Fisking? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk#Fisking
March 05, 2018 at 20:35
Yeah, @"photographer" and @"csalisbury" were my favourite posters. EDIT: I see Csal visited 4 days ago. Photo hasn't been around for 2 years.
March 05, 2018 at 18:51
:rofl: :up:
March 02, 2018 at 10:49
:cool:
March 02, 2018 at 10:11
Actually it was just my excuse for not practising today :grin:
March 02, 2018 at 10:09
Ah yes, I see. Me, I sacrificed my glorious musical talents to Mammon and my creative spirit was crushed by the relentless imperatives of capital. :wi...
March 02, 2018 at 10:05
I actually know several guys I studied with who went into programming of one kind or another.
March 02, 2018 at 10:01
Yes, also in the UK, but I like to emphasize the word's etymology, according to which it means someone who does something for the love of it, not for ...
March 02, 2018 at 09:55
Please, I'm an amateur, not a hobbyist. T Clark and Agustino are the only philosophical civil engineers I know, so I'm guessing it's just a delightful...
March 02, 2018 at 09:48
Me too. But changing position, taking on more responsibility and so on, can also be done in an established company. In any case, you were dead wrong t...
March 02, 2018 at 09:28
This is also a fairy tale, one we often hear from entrepreneurs. The successful ones, of course. The ones who give TED talks extolling the virtues of ...
March 02, 2018 at 08:11
The Language Instinct, as I recall, combines Chomsky's linguistics with evolutionary psychology.
February 28, 2018 at 16:02
A trivial point.
February 28, 2018 at 12:59
It has been deleted and it will remain deleted, and if you post any similar evangelistic confusions, they will be deleted too, preferably before they ...
February 28, 2018 at 12:46
It's a philosophy forum and we try to maintain high standards. Discussions about conspiracy theories as a social or psychological phenomenon would be ...
February 24, 2018 at 07:19
:rofl: :vomit:
February 21, 2018 at 14:34
Nope! I leave behind me a trail of disappointment and shattered dreams.
February 19, 2018 at 13:37
Sorry, no. I waited and waited, but you failed to act in a timely manner.
February 19, 2018 at 13:09
This is a very common experience, and I don't think it's a sign of a serious lack of musical ability. In my experience, so long as you're able to sing...
February 19, 2018 at 09:30
I see that PlushForums have made a few changes lately. If you're interested, they're in their Twitter feed. For example... https://twitter.com/PlushFo...
February 19, 2018 at 09:15
Notice that you can agree with the Chinese party line, as presented by Erik, and still support Tibetan self-determination. Even if the Chinese brought...
February 05, 2018 at 09:19
Yeah, I'm not going to start calling myself a Randian just yet.
February 02, 2018 at 11:08
https://www.bookstr.com/which-philosopher-are-you I got Ayn Rand. :s
February 02, 2018 at 10:57
Kant (100%) Aristotle (78%) Protagoras (74%) Hume (64%) Augustine (60%) Aquinas (44%) Sextus Empiricus (41%) Plato (2%) Nietzsche (0%) I thought I was...
February 01, 2018 at 10:28
Sorry Tiff, I'm facing the prospect of getting a mother-in-law of my very own, and I'm thinking one is enough.
January 25, 2018 at 12:44
(Y)
January 23, 2018 at 15:46
Ah yes, I remember now. I think I asked the developers to remove the cumulative score. Without that I think it would've been ok.
January 23, 2018 at 15:40
But it seems most people are still against it anyway.
January 23, 2018 at 15:38
Oh
January 23, 2018 at 15:38