Baden

@"Amity" Suggestions intended to make things better for the activity are welcome whether we follow them or not. So, thanks for bringing it up. And tha...

Looking forward to it. :cool: Did you send it in yet?

I can't find it either...

Good point, yes.

Ah, yes, thanks. Done that. Yes, but when we copy it into a discussion, some of your formatting might be lost (e.g. italics and bolding). You can keep...

We should probably all blame @"unenlightened". He's a pernicious influence haunting our dreams. Anyhow, clearly everything is in ruins already, so I e...

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:lol: You got me.

Thanks for your support as ever. Looking forward to your contribution. :heart:

Yes, for those of you who like more competition, it may change next time, depending on who takes the reins.

"All is chaos under the heavens... The situation is excellent."

1) This time it's not supposed to be a competition, but an activity. (I've removed all reference to voting from the OP). 2) Mention as many or as few ...

(By the way, please excuse any delays in responding here. I'm in a different time zone to most of you and I don't come online during work either, so p...

We're definitely going to try running the activity without formal voting / polls this time, but you can e.g. pick one story and write "Story X has my ...

Some fine questions there. I'll let @"Noble Dust" decide the rest of the details. I've dictated enough.

OK. :up:

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That would be helpful, yes, but it's up to you. You can still comment in the discussion threads for each story too, so it's likely if you commented on...

However many you want, I guess. Maybe you like them all equally. You can say that too.

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I already posted the thread...

Will aim to make an announcement soon. :up:

And Harris could still carry the popular vote. But she's a weak uninspiring candidate is the problem.

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016 though. Only lost due to electoral college set up.

Data looks bad for Harris for sure. She's even winning less women than Biden... Dems never gonna learn.

Not going to call it for Trump until Harris loses one of MI, WI, or PA.

Toss a coin. There's your winner.

:100: As I've said before, @"fdrake" has all the words. Every one of 'em. :fire:

Ok, well, feel free to start a thread on that unorthodox position on ethics. We've rather veered off topic here.

Drinking coffee is morally wrong? Sitting too much is morally wrong? How about, spending countless hours without sleep tirelessly working on a suicide...

I think we more or less agree. E.g. The claim "abortion is wrong" obviously doesn't allow for direct application of the scientific method---it's not a...

It applies only to science and ethics isn't a science, so it wouldn't apply to that.

Either Trump or Harris could easily win 300 plus electors. Every single swing state is within the margin of error. I will only strongly disagree that ...

Yes and, to develop the idea, there’s a kind of bait and switch whereby what’s ostensibly offered, “knowledge” (of this and that) is offered as an imp...

Hello Michael, if that is even your real name. It is clear that you DO NOT understand America. Please DO NOT comment on matters you do not understand....

Yep, it's that or the Cum Cruise / Leon Musk ultra dystopia of cyborg super consumers with the only free beings forced to live like rats at the edges ...

Details of Ukraine war are off-topic here.

Food, territory, mates, power in a hierarchy, freedom of movement and lots of other things. Just because animals don't have explicit values they can a...

I'm making efforts to clarify the sourcing issue in the guidelines and the mod forum. I'd ask for some patience with us and with other posters on this...

Another way of saying this is it's not the knowledge that is primarily identify-forming in an educational context, it's the context itself as a way of...

It's a very broad question. At root and primarily what you learn through the education system can be contextualised by viewing that system as a microc...

My analysis FWIW is that Harris (now) will probably carry Pennsylvania and the election will come down to Michigan and Wisconsin which are toss ups (I...

Why would there be a freakout? Almost everyone here and elsewhere has said the race is at best about 60/40 in favour of Trump. A 40% probability comin...

The animalist would claim that those who argue "no" are wrong. That it's incoherent to consider ourselves as fundamentally something other than a huma...

But that details the argument under discussion. In fairness to @"NOS4A2", he's tried to keep things on track by providing context.

I have no comment on that. Thank you for keeping things polite on your end anyhow.

Calm down, please. You're making this emotive.

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If you're open to that implication then your begging-the-question objection isn't water tight, is it? Although I think it's better to phrase it as "pe...