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How so?

Sure. The same happens with individuals. If I expect the worst of you, I'll communicate that in various ways. Then it comes down to how open you are t...

Maybe. Native Americans are aware that their own cultures are mostly lost and replaced by an all-purpose image that's Siouxan: the teepees, feathered ...

There is a fair amount of inaccurate information circulating about the native Australians. Poignantly, that information (baloney about dreamtime and s...

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Harry Houdini was Jewish.

One puzzler is whether a person can transform herself through redirecting self-talk. We recently had a thread about a famous American comic strip auth...

Godzilla vs King Kong How did that movie end?

I meant you were part of a generation baptised in it.

Ok, sorry.

You were taught to worship Shiva.

Australians, around 60,000 years. Native Americans, about 10,000. True, it's a long time. Not a lot of Beethoven or Shakespeare, but robust in other w...

I don't think civilization is inherently better aesthetically. Obviously it ended up being more successful than other modes.

For anthropologists, monument building is a mark of civilization.

It's partly the way you're interpreting events. We naturally look for repetition, so we highlight the similarities between now and the 1930s, using wo...

I'm a frontline healthcare worker, so I still see the posters left from the pandemic that say "heroes wear scrubs." I don't know what that's supposed ...

If you say so.

There's a crowd of self-proclaimed nihilists on reddit. The loudest ones are fairly plaintiff and anti-natalist. The rest are so-called "positive nihi...

I think there's probably a lot of chanting going on, like "I'm a terrible son." "Why are they calling me? I prefer text messages because I have so muc...

The US CPI numbers came out this morning and inflation is higher. Powell has already warned that he's hawkish on increasing rates, but there was just ...

Good impulse control! Broken windows are a pain to fix.

That's kind of what they're trying to do. On my end, there's a glaring labor shortage, so I don't know how they're supposed to increase unemployment. ...

That's probably a party in Iceland.

It all just dissolves back into the mud from which it came.

The US economy is starting to squeak from rate hikes, with more on the way.

It never reaches the limit. Ok, try divergent progression.

Think of a convergent progression in math. If that doesn't explain it, I probably won't be able to by adding more words.

Just means development. Like if a person has had a stroke and now their mental status is degrading, one of the possibilities is that it's a progressio...

Do you have holes in your walls? I've always been more prone to breaking things, like throwing a dish on the ground to express my explosive rage. Like...

If cancer progresses, it's not toward a goal. It just means it's continuing to develop along certain lines. Enlightenment progress is like that in som...

Plus, is there a hole in the wall?

IHOP has pancakes

Wow. That's hardcore.

I knew it!

Looks like unjustified arrogance.

Can you explain who that is Trump is slapping? And the statue of liberty? And can you explain why they never set a real fire in that thing she's holdi...

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But is that like saying that since knives are used to kill, and killers are destroying their own world, knives are inherently self undermining? I thin...

You mean the petroleum dependent way of life is doomed. I agree. But amazingly, it's the technology rich societies whose populations are decreasing. I...

My friend says the economy is run by monkeys and donkeys so we're all doomed.

There's a little underground railway between the Eternal Return and Kierkegaard's Repetition. The charge to board that train is 5 euros.

I think your argument was that airplanes are the product of a diseased breed, so it's foolish to think of them as progress. The sun of optimism can ne...

It's opposed to evolutionary biology. That trumps whatever God was going to say.

That's pseudo-science

Humans?

You overlooked the possibility that our demise might allow some other species to flourish, and therefore the airplane very well may be a stepping ston...

You talk of humans as if they're the epitome of life. Who knows what glorious six legged creatures require our particular ashes in order to take off a...

But for hundreds of thousands of years, our species acquired skills only to lose them again. Stasis was the rule. Something unusual happened about 60,...

I flipped a coin To decide what to do But I fumbled the damn thing And it bounced under the couch I swung at it with a broom but that knocked it out t...

Those pages aren't slow for me. I can try to embed a video from somewhere else and see if it's just YouTube.