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That's my understanding, although Woodward's new book apparently reveals that he thought he could get the SCOTUS to overturn the election. Plus he was...

Are you aware of Japan's situation wrt their debt? A Japanese default would take out the US. So it's not really the threat the US poses to you. You ap...

If Japan defaulted it would bring down the global economy. Are you as fascinated by their prime minister? Yes. He miscalculated. The US probably will ...

How does American politics affect you?

Thanks for the update. Prosecutung Trump would put him back in the spotlight. That would serve no one but him and his supporters. Plus it's not your f...

Trump was impeached.

I think the OP's point was that context is important for translation. You seemed to be arguing to the contrary. Now I don't know what your point was.

One assumes when they're finished bullshitting you they go back to speaking a language they do understand, so you haven't addressed the OP, have you?

Nobody masters a language with no idea what they are saying. I don't know why you would suggest such a thing.

I'm not defending anything. Just advising that you need to move to the frontier to gain more freedom. Sounds like you'll be doing that?

You know, if you need more freedom, you could just move a few hundred miles north. No one would bother you.

Trust isn't special. Lack of trust makes the news. The Russians can't be trusted. We may have to bomb them. It's dramatic. We can't trust the governme...

We could put it in the payloads of some missiles and bomb Texas with it.

Have you ever gotten a new lease on life? Like you're renting it?

From now on I will.

This is why apple pies are so expensive.

We see that occasionally in the emergency room. Without steroids it progresses to a squinty eye, a corn cob pipe, and a sailor's hat.

Nonfiction

https://www.cluttermagazine.com/sites/magazine/files/styles/node-detail/public/field/image/Pooper.png?itok=lkf5m-I6

It's usually a mailbox.

It'll either be Trump or a Trump-clone. Biden should win unless something weird happens.

I think so, it's just that the explanations provided by functionalism don't cover qualia. So it's left hanging, so to speak. The p-zombie was original...

Freud would advise that you see some relationship between sex and destruction, or death. That's why you haven't pursued this zesty enterprise as you c...

You probably just need to get more sleep. Or get laid. Both contribute to well-being.

It reminded me of the Rocky Mountains, which I associate with wildness like in The Revenant. The mailbox is a resident of quiet neighborhoods. My neig...

My concern is what it might be doing to people's lungs, Could it be a factor in asthma? COPD?

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It may have fucked with your brain.

They were first discovered in Japan at a plastic recycling plant. Yes, they eat bottles. Why? Are we in a hurry? I'm guessing now that one type has ev...

I think the microplastic is probably in you and me as well. The bacteria will get to it eventually. I don't think it needs to be dumped anywhere.

Platonism is a battlefield for leftists and rightists? That doesn't sound very likely.

There's a bacteria that eats plastic. Problem solved!

One possible response to that would be that the same is true of your aquaintance with the world in general. Is it what you think it is? Couldn't it be...

Is that your argument for why Pop is wrong? That he can't know you're conscious? Just curious.

I've always said you have a big head.

I think Apo is Greek.

He's got a point though (just kidding).

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Did Plato believe in a realm of the Unformed to match the Forms?

A global economic collapse followed eventually by WW3 might create a global government, assuming the fallout isn't too extreme.

So when you say morality is beneath the level of perspective you mean you don't decide what's right and wrong. You want to identify the causal agent h...

I think morality and amorality are aspects of one's perspective. You can look at the Holocaust as a mountain of evil, or you can look at it the way a ...

Yep. I was reading that a case of shingles may be a sign of latent covid19 infection. Herpes viruses and SARS-CoV-2 circumvent the immune system at th...

It would part chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry, so that would be omnibenevolent.

If you mean a god you can pray to, no, there isn't. That's a fairy tale. If you mean some sort of Neoplatonic divinity, maybe.

I'm mostly ignoring you at this point, just FYI.

Young people without comorbitities do die or end up with permanent loss of function. They have been all along. My concern was about messaging: if you'...

If you're in close contact with anyone who has a chronic condition, you should assume that you're a carrier even if both of you have been vaccinated. ...

Exactly. The authenticity of each of the dialogues has been called into question at some time or other. It's not appropriate to be dogmatic about what...

I agree, but divergence from an historical account should be marked out as such. Don't present your own ponderings as the essential Plato.