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That's dinosaur eggs.

Fried rice and an egg roll.

"What the fuck is an Anglo-Saxon nation?" ----frank, 2025

Dude. Are you quoting yourself?

And coal is concerning because when all the other sources are tapped out, coal availability will continue for a few more centuries. The magnitude of c...

Per Investing.com, So all it takes is a pause in momentum, and we'll fall a lot further than we would have normally. If we do go into crash mode, it w...

There is a thing where people transition to try to escape dealing with past trauma, usually physical and sexual abuse, altho they don't realize it unt...

That looks good.

Ok good. You don't put saffron in it?

What do you put in it?

Do you eat a lot of rice?

Sorry to hear that. That's rough.

Embodied LLM

Yes. It's hard to keep up and sort truth from fiction. There's this: In other words, kids coming out of school need to focus on things that only human...

Powell says AI is not like the dot.com bubble.

Fine. They just built 100 coal power plants, but they're going to give those up in favor of solar.

I wasn't fixing the blame. I was pointing out the main obstacle to fixing the problem: China and the West march to different drums. There's no coordin...

In 2022, the Chinese government approved plans to build about 100 coal burning power plants. Their use is accelerating in the face of what I'm sure th...

Yes. But this is the problem: https://ecopolitic.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Globalne-spozhivannya-vugillya.png

I think adaptation is becoming the mainstream focus. Just in case our heroic efforts to reduce CO2 emissions fail, we can try to protect the most vuln...

Ok? Trump doesn't care much how the US appears to the rest of the world. In large part, the standing of the US is something the rest of the world crea...

I don't believe Platonic dialectics is actually different from Hegel's. Hegel was influenced by Neoplatonic philosophy. See the Cyclical Argument in P...

So you could say that within the framework of traditional Chinese views, "human nature tends toward benefit or recognition of one's group" is an axiom...

It was about how they saw the natures of men and women. We would say their assessment of nature was wrong.

Dale Martin explains the background of the Christian condemnation of homosexuality in Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Inte...

You still have no argument.

Ok. If you want others to take that as axiomatic, you'll have to persuade them. As it is, no one takes it as axiomatic except you.

Which is what?

No.

The fed lowered interest rates today. What that means is that all of you folks who predicted calamity from the trade war were just wrong. Things have ...

This view is known as adaptationism. It's very intuitively persuasive, but is not backed up by science. Adaptation has the biggest impact on organisms...

They must have really small mountains where you live. They're just bumps.

'If I have the faith to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.'. (1 Corinthians 13:2) That's the Christian one, although the guy who said...

Kierkegaard's reproach of Hegel was that he had the whole universe figured out, but he had put to the side the only thing one really knows: what it's ...

If you have Hulu, watch Alien: Earth. It's pretty good, with androids, human-android hybrids, and synthetic bodies that have the consciousnesses of ch...

Computers execute if/then commands, they can continuously sample the environment looking for patterns. What else might there be to anticipation than t...

It's very important to know the difference between an internal voice and an external one, or a real face and a hallucination. For some crazy people, t...

I agree. Hegel thought of Becoming as primal, being the synthesis of being and non-being. To grasp Becoming, we analyze it. In becoming, you leave beh...

What evidence convinced you that speech caused the change?

According to Chris Stringer, there are multiple theories about what happened to Homo sapiens 60,000 years ago. Whether sophisticated speech caused the...

I think that tendency to see or project ourselves on the environment is in our firmware. At an irrational level, we engage the world as if it is alive...

I don't think it's as simple as the coupling of organism to environment. If that's the only requirement, all living things ought to be sapient. I'm ho...

I agree. I would be skeptical of philosophical inquiry that appears to complete the job, though. That provides nothing more than personal bias. Everyb...

Maybe not?. For instance, the earth's electromagnetic field means that the earth's core is an electromagnetic dynamo. According to realism, there woul...

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I had a similar description, with more obscenities.

A friend of mine was trying to cut a pumpkin open and the knife slipped and gouged his thumb, and then a pumpkin seed jettisoned out and got him right...

I see.

Wait. Do you use Google Earth as the Google background? That's why I was looking at it.