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It's doable. People would be healthier if we did. Reduced healthcare costs...

For a lot of people it's normal to sit watching television, eating carbs because the television is tedious and boring, probably taking some addictive ...

Plus he's right. People would have to reduce their demand. Every year I'm amazed at the demand for air conditioning. People make their dwellings colde...

I didn't realize that. I know communism and similar groups were popular back then, especially in the Southeast.

It's hard to say, but you can look at what's happening now. The east coast of North America is shrinking as we speak. It's been doing that for years, ...

Yea. When Greenland melts again, the oceans will rise by around 20 feet.

Lincoln's vision of freedom was about social mobility. Masters may be happy, but they aren't free because they're cemented into a particular role by l...

Did you know Trump wouldn't be the first American to run for president from prison? Check this out. So imagine Trump is a socialist who's been convict...

That's one annoying issue about the charges, yes. :lol:

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Yes. It is. Is that bad?

My point was that if we want to tax Bezo's wealth, we'll have to have a progressive federal property tax. Income tax wouldn't do it. So far, the main ...

Thanks!

I'm sorry, I'm out of the loop on what the original disagreement was. If the question is asked: "Is that a dog?", the meaning of the uttered sentence ...

:grin: Some commentary I read said that a high percentage of interpretations are based on reading in ideas not expressed by W. Maybe that stuff ends u...

Keep in mind that in one article you posted, the data only went back to 1980. In the other it was 1991. Any legit scientist would tell you that's not ...

One of my pet peeves is the way the Private Language Argument is misinterpreted on this site. Some people do it over and over and that misinterpretati...

I think a lot of people are ok dwelling in a fantasy zone. They're comfortable there. Why boost them out of it? If you do, you'll just have to shoot t...

There's a spectrum between creativity and orthodoxy. Go too far in either direction and you have bullshit.

They'd have a vaccine pretty quickly: that's the cool thing about the mRNA technology.

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So what you're suggesting is that Trump and DeSantis are both dead and their bodies are being driven by swamp worms?

Also the Greenland ice sheet melted 416,000 years ago. Wow!

Economic disasters have a proven track record.

No it's not.

Assyrians!! Ahhhhhh!

Is that your argument?

Why would it be?

Pythagoras didn't invent that theorem. The Egyptians did.

When it says his wealth increased, that means his Amazon stock increased in value. That's not income or even real money until he sells the stocks.

If course not. I think the whole world should bow down to the majesty of the US military due to the realization that nonviolent resistance is key.

I think it's a matter of population density. If it's a few people transporting silk from China to Egypt in 1000 BC, they probably won't meet anybody o...

I did not know that. This is it: I think they should plant some bushes around it or something. It's a little stark https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...

parking lot

That probably means the Assyrians are about to attack. You should get out of Dodge.

I hope so. We'll see.

I have a subscription to the WaPo. A couple of things that editorial doesn't mention: yes, gen-z'ers are coming of age to vote. The problem is: they w...

:rofl: What a weird thing to say.

Like the law suits? That won't stop him.

He's the frontrunner, so he'll probably be up against Biden. So his chances are about 50%. That's how close presidential elections are here. He's the ...

He's the frontrunner. He'll be there. There's a good chance he'll be the next president.

Inscrutability of reference probably.

I've lost track of your point.

I think maybe Quine isn't your cuppa tea. :razz:

You have it backward, Janus. Christianity as we know it was adapted to Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophical view of the time, not the other way ar...

He had multiple proofs of God. Aquinas' proofs are modeled on them. The Christian founders approved of the use of ancient Greek philosophers in Christ...

Aristotle made proofs of God as well. What's your expert opinion on that?

Scholastic philosophers taught the skill of argumentation by having students create proofs of God on their own, and their arguments would be critiqued...

I guess Quine would have us deflate "understand." Like this: https://youtu.be/coVhwOC7_GI

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