Jamal

:pray: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/octopus-astronaut-helmet-space-octopus-astronaut-helmet-space-illustration-black-t-shirt-design-suitable-210641...

A bold claim indeed. If they’re right, I suggest that octopuses are the lesser spawn of the Great Old Ones.

It’s tempting then to say that it didn’t really matter to them if it was implemented. I mentioned the basic aimlessness of the protests in 1968-69; bu...

That’s great stuff and makes a lot of sense. It occurs to me that there are more mundane reasons too, though they probably emerge out of the processes...

Hm, not sure about all that. But I’ll leave it there for now. I have enough mental plates to juggle. :smile:

Yeah, but there was no such discovery for bachelors.

It keeps me on my toes :up:

Was there a time when it wasn’t common knowledge that all bachelors were unmarried men? You know, before it was discovered? Maybe “all bachelors are u...

Pond-dering? Scathing satire once again :clap: Sounds lovely. If we’re widening the scope to several miles, I can say that I was born near the Queen o...

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No no, it’s an album of space jazz. Very sofishticated.

:up: Reminds me of Sun Ra: Space is the Plaice

I’m going to need citations for that.

So hard to tell these days.

Absolutely, and porcupines…and so on.

Only without the water. But I want to make a stronger case: the right to go to space for fishes is not contingent upon any similarities in conditions ...

Since there is no proof either way, I’m keeping my mind open. But my main concern is to emphasize that they have the right to go to space.

The naut in astronaut means boat. Boats are for travelling on bodies of water, and what creatures famously live in bodies of water? Fishes. While this...

According to Alexander Stern in the Hedgehog Review, the answer lies in Dialectic of Enlightenment, where enlightenment and myth, reason and unreason,...

Happy May Day. https://russiatrek.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/may-1-soviet-propaganda-poster-20-small.jpg

Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour by Maria Mies. Publisher’s description: “This now classic ...

I smack you in the face with my leather glove. I was reading some book just then and found the word Housewifization. The meaning is clear enough but c...

Fun fact: I was born at the Whittington hospital, 400 metres from Karl Marx’s tomb. Marx and sausages.

In fact, I literally straddle the border between Scotland and England, since I was born in London and my father is English, while on the other hand I ...

Nice.

It’s a low-effort OP, a casual undeveloped thought that popped into your head. You’ve been told about this before. https://thephilosophyforum.com/disc...

Thank you Nobbo.

My mother left me outside a butcher’s shop in London when I was a baby and went away without me, having momentarily forgotten I existed. This was 1972...

Most native English speakers get this wrong too, so this correction shouldn’t imply that your English isn’t good… If you had feta instead of tofu, the...

They say it’s too late to use it when it’s sprouted, because it’s bitter. But I don’t listen to Das Man and use it anyway. Definitely. What’s a corsag...

Right, and not only that: Adorno had been criticizing technocracy for decades. But the puzzling thing is that he saw the chaos of the student activism...

I wasn’t expecting you to think I thought you expected action, but rather expected you to enjoy the unexpected witticism, but now I realize I ought to...

@"universeness" Something’s been bothering me. This discussion has been hovering around on the first page for ages, and I find the title annoying. Is ...

Don’t worry. Since one of them presents a solution to the hard problem, we won’t need any more threads about it. Seriously though, that particular thr...

To the death! We need more of this on TPF.

Oh good, another fight in the Shoutbox. :party:

Typical Valencian attitude :roll:

Well, there is truth in Hegelian dialectics, and it comes when the sublation of contradictions allows one to the see whole, and not just the parts—and...

Interesting. What did you feel about the incident? Did you feel offended that they spoke to you in Valencian? (I assume you were in Madrid/Castilla at...

Thanks, that’s interesting, and interestingly wrong I think. However, I’m not sure how to tackle it directly. I might think about it and return to it ...

I’m not sure I want to encourage you here MU, but what the hell: you’re going to have to unpack that.

Yes, although I feel duty-bound to forestall the common misinterpretation that Adorno was simply anti-Enlightenment. As he saw it, what he was doing w...

I’ll say a bit more. Although you frame the history differently from the way I do, I think you’ve identified what I’m most interested in, namely progr...

GPT is dumb. Even worse, it’s dumb and woke.

A satchel might just about count, yes. I forgot about satchels. I've never been such a hard drinker that I carry it around in a bag, but I guess it's ...

:blush:

On behalf of my AI-generated self I’m offended by your body-shaming transphobia.

JAMAL: I've noticed that in most countries, men carry handbags, sometimes known as "man bags", or what Americans would call purses. The only exception...

Ah, that could be the eye of a loin chop, which I think is the equivalent of what is called the fillet on a cow.

I don’t know what lamb straps are but that sounds excellent. I like all the meats of reared animals. Wild meat is often disappointing.