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On behalf of @"Shawn" I ask that you find something to eat other than pork.

But tomorrow isn't here yet. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; A...

I think you meant "Wow. I read the article you posted, and that's an amazing possibility. Thanks for sharing." You're welcome.

Are you suggesting that we could smoke SpongeBob SquarePants and get stoned?

That's not true. The GR math doesn't say anything about a singularity. The idea of a singularity is just a product extrapolation. So the black hole co...

Maybe. There's a theory that we're in a black hole, which is inside a bigger universe. Instead of one Big Bang, there are Big Bounces that spawn unive...

What is said is that American industries were modeled after the US military, whose structure comes from the Prussian military. The US went through a p...

Strictly speaking, it's a republic, not a democracy.

The British have never really had autocracy due to the Magna Carta.

You guys copied our federalism. I think you secretly love the USA.

Children start to grasp the difference between real and unreal at a fairly early age, don't they?

That is such freakin' genius.

Your government is partially based on the American system. What do you want to change it to? :razz:

Land of nerds.

The motto of the IEEE (electronic engineering society) used to be Engineering; turning ideas into reality. Very philosophical, except also helpful.

That is so true. :grin:

I think he's actually made of polyester.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/SpongeBob_SquarePants_character.png/250px-SpongeBob_SquarePants_character.png

Everything is upside down in Australia.

There is also concern about the opposite issue: data from orbiting satellites indicates that the earth is getting greener, probably due to increased C...

"You can't bite your own teeth.". --Alan Watts

It's in the feedback forum.

I'm watching a K-drama that revolves around Korea's aversion to scandal. If a woman is being physically abused by her husband, everyone around her is ...

True. I was just asking if they could move that thread to the lounge.

Guys, the climate change subreddit gets 66,400 visitors and 2800 contributions per week from all across world media. They don't produce the kind of cr...

I'm sure there are nothing but noble reasons for the hostility. I'm just asking @"Jamal" if we might put the Consequences of Climate Change thread in ...

Right. I think we put all the other low brow discussions in the Lounge, and I thought that was an improvement. I think they just missed this one.

Well, you made the case. Let the chips fall where they may.

Did you really?

Do you pig out when you're flying? Or do you just eat a small protein bar?

Is it? I think there are two meanings of determine in play. There's what you can determine, like "they determined that the rain was acidic." Or "the p...

It means that whichever number appeared face up, that number was the only possibility. Laplace's Demon would attest that this is true.

A mass extinction is an event in which there's a breakdown in a biosphere's ability to support life. I don't think there is any reason to believe that...

I've been reading Heidegger in Ruins by Wolin, and I have to say that in spite of his best efforts, he's not showing a clear connection between Heideg...

But wouldn't you agree that language is associated with social practices and language games?

It was a bad idea.

:up: Agree, although the British backed away from transitioning teens because they determined that GDD doesn't indicate that a person is trans. It jus...

Wasn't Frankl's point that you have to provide yourself with purpose?

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I think so. But then Bob miraculously recovers and now you have all those biodegradable balloons flying around and one ends up flying over China and t...

Well, there's a debate there. Is going to a funeral really doing anything for the dead person? This reminds me of Tom Sawyer, who found himself in att...

I put some effort into explaining that without going full mystical mumbo jumbo. You could at least mull it over for a second. :razz:

What would you think if you saw someone wear red to a funeral?

When you ask a question, you're seeking to understand. Understanding has a passive character where you're open and waiting. Judgement, on the other ha...

The BBC is unreliable. That's been true for years.

This is cool. Humans may have remote touch where the fingers can locate things under granular material through mechanical signals. I wonder if this is...

Once more with feeling.

Structure? What kind of structure?

Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology Richard Wolin

I made a cup of coffee and forgot to put the coffee in it. I was enjoying a nice hot cup of water and didn't notice until I realized I could see the b...