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That makes sense. Probably especially in times of stress, they would tend to go back to what's always worked? Thanks! :up:

Missile attack on Ukrainian grain. Flight to safety on the currency market. :grimace:

Isn't Germany basically the leader? Excuse my ignorance. Why are they vengeful? So this is something I don't quite understand. Has Russia always sort ...

You could say the US is at fault because they talked the Ukrainians into giving up their nuclear weapons after the Cold War. If they had nukes, this w...

A T-rex was a prehistoric chicken.

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They need James Bond to snorkel over there and blow that shit up.

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Why don't they sneak in and attach bombs to the columns? Boom!

Of course. :up:

Possibly :lol:

People have their reasons for believing things that seem really weird to the rest of us.

The elderly are a powerful voting bloc though. Some elderly people are turning to Obamacare to bridge them till medicare kicks in at 65.

I asked Baden. He said you need to watch this video. https://youtube.com/watch?v=jeT_0pdfrtw&feature=share8

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It wasn't just that. The left had no answer to stagflation other than to centralize control of the economy. Neither the US nor the UK we're ready for ...

You can fix it! https://www.gardenersedge.com/media/catalog/product/cache/aa1841770a2aa8b05bb5b429e42f9ba2/d/f/dfk100.jpg

How about this guy? https://youtube.com/watch?v=tGkhpjWcVz0&feature=share8

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I read Georgia is running out of peaches due to climate change. Maybe they can switch to bananas.

You're fluent in Japanese?

There were all kinds of conspiracy theories about Bill Gates too: that he engineered the virus so he could get rich from it. People really believe tha...

Great post btw. I read about the idea of a central processing hub a while back. It would take sensory cues, models, learned and innate reflexes, hopes...

If you have no citation for this, I'll have to just disregard it.

I have 500 stories and each one is only one word. Can I get grandfathered in?

He means that the information we have about how the visual system works, for instance, doesn't explain the experience of seeing, at least it hasn't ye...

Yes. Chalmers believes that our present scientific approach to understanding consciousness is limited to explaining function. He believes we need to a...

No, the hard problem is a fixture of philosophy of mind at this point. The whole point of the hard problem is to put us on the path to a theory of con...

If he needs help discovering what Chalmers' meant by the "hard problem," I'll be happy to point him toward helpful resources.

Actually you have, repeatedly. Chalmers is optimistic about a theory of consciousness that explains experience.

Again, you seemed to have misunderstood Chalmers' point. He does not propose that science can't explain experience. He's fairly confident that it can ...

Fine. No flaying.

Basically, all the losers get flayed alive for the arrogance of competing with divinity.

Chalmers never said that first person data is excluded from consideration by scientists, and Einstein's thought experiments specifically reference the...

So you were pessimistic. You knew January 6th wouldn't accomplish anything. And it didn't.

That's what you hoped he would be because you wanted him to wreck the system. The system abides.

Lassie was gay.

The most American thing ever. https://youtube.com/shorts/N8sqOWGF3DE?feature=share8

In order to do that, taxation would have to be controlled by a body of experts the way rates are. In principle, people shouldn't be taxed unless they ...

The Fed is still promising a hike at the end of July to bring inflation down to 2%, probably 25 bps. Right now it looks like we could have a soft land...

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No, I didn't. The disparity isn't the sexism. It's the result of sexism. Anybody who defines sexism as a set of disparities is an idiot.

I don't think anyone defines sexism as a set of disparities, do they? Sexism is a kind of prejudice. Disparities are the concrete outworking of histor...

So what's the problem?

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There's a female pediatric intensivist I know of. Word is that when she has a proposal to make, she hands it to a particular male surgeon and asks him...

Interesting. I wasn't aware of that stuff. It reminds me of the shift in fashion associated with Beau Brummel. Rich men stopped wearing wigs, make-up,...

Oh yea! Let's party old school! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgoqrgc_0cM

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They show up in the stories we tell. In our world they'll be in formulaic movies. In the ancient world there would be a central epic tale in which var...