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The naivety of some posters here re this is surprising. The way Adams chose and spun that poll (even on the basis of which three quarters of responden...

Hard to work out what you're saying here. Biologically, the categories are false; socially, they're true. Being a social animal is a double-edged swor...

Nice. Can't beat the Boat Noodle Flavour though. :cool: /uploads/resized/files/bb/xowxy2ab99yoactm.jpg :chin: Depends on what books they've read.

Getting too bourgeois around here. Have some chips.

Satay sauce is really good with chips (french fries for you semi-literate yanks).

Racial biases are pretty much ubiquitous. They're built into the structure of our societies and therefore into the structure of our minds. The best we...

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Characterising it like this is misleading (and just what he's doing on Twitter now btw as he comically tries to save his dead career) because he didn'...

(Anyone who thinks it's literally not OK to be white is also a racist but I very much doubt that's 26% of blacks and has more to do with @"Hanover"'s ...

I already know the context. And in that context, he's a scummy racist using and abusing the results of one poll that suits his purposes to justify a c...

Well, yes, analysis, link from specific to general etc.

That's on the way to developing something, yes. I'd like to see more of that in OPs of this sort.

Is the idea that people are more racist than you thought? Is there anything else to it than that? What are we supposed to be debating here?

@"L'éléphant" beat you to it (see above) though I trust you knew it anyway. :up:

This is like if someone asked me what your name was and I said: "Bald, short, fat, and ugly". It's an apt description but misses the point.

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I ate this. You have my food knowledge respect if you can tell me its name (Hint: Thai Dish). /uploads/resized/files/cb/thywvsk0p4z7lzj0.jpeg

Don't reckon this dipshit merits a discussion unless you can flesh out some generalized thesis that you think his comments illustrate.

Cartoon is OK. Pity its creator is a brain-dead racist (currently on Twitter defending his remarks in a way that will appeal to fellow brain-dead raci...

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Ah, nice. And I definitely recommend the larb flavour. I don't know where mine came from though. Snacks like that just appear in my kitchen on a fairl...

Made from REAL fish. /uploads/resized/files/lv/edad7bmk235q2ef3.jpg

Food again, eh? I'm eating dried white spicy and sour Thai salad flavor sardines because of the adjectives and all else I got is Pot Noodle. Mmmm or w...

Ok, but I don't recommend inviting Bertrand and strippers. The dude is notorious.

I suspect some inaccuracies and request references.

I met a Swiss commodities trader who recently visited a supplier of a major banana brand in Haiti. He told me he inspected the place and not one of th...

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So you did read that stuff. Thought you were just frontin'. :nerd:

Western kids are not allowed to read the word "fat" because they might get upset. Meanwhile, the child slave labourers in the developing world who are...

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64702224 These changes are stupid and unnecessary.

Silly. I made that down there with sand. water, and a blowtorch.

Also beach food./uploads/resized/files/8i/hkz47lzr222afglh.jpg

Sarcasm. I would rather dip my head in boiling lava than eat that in a country where you can get a supremely great bowl of noodles for a dollar on the...

Was in Thailand for a couple of weeks. They have Taco Bell there too. :yum:

Unfortunate, was an affable member and probably a cool person in real life. Right decision, but I wish him well anyhow if he's reading this.

"Just" a word. :chin: Getting to be a word is tough. Try it and see how you get on!

@"frank" I'm not sure Nikki Haley merits her own thread. Can we just rename it "Election 2024" or something and put all that in here?

Who wouldn't be? :love:

Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas. Excellent.

:cool: :up: I've read bits too but not the whole thing. They are pretty direct. Typical excerpt: "Movies and radio need no longer pretend to be art. T...

But in a world where everyone is the sociopathic embodiment of an imaginary token that subsumes all human relationships, it's fine.

Yes, that's what makes it dangerous. The bigger the lie...

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Filling out the above a bit: A rational analysis of the set-up recognizes it as an exchange relation between the currencies of respect and money which...

You're welcome.

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I deleted your OP and just sent you a PM. You are not allowed to start OPs to advertise your website / books etc. See the guidelines.

Let me add that economists are amongst the most deranged group of fabulists on the planet and their versions of "rationality" tend to hover in that un...

We're getting there. Social relations have symbolic importance and money is a form of social relation, but not the only one. Of course, we're so degra...

I poured out the sauce that was in the jar, so I could make new sauce and put it in the now empty jar. That seemed the simplest way to approach things...