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What straw/camel back argument? There are pretty deep divisions now, yes.

Remember that Hamilton and Jefferson hated each other to point that there was violence in the air. That's normal when there is no dictator to suppress...

If it had a doctor explaining how the sugar industry manipulated government recommendations resulting in an increase in the incidence of diabetes and ...

He's actually right about that. I've got a good video to help you get up to speed on "food-gate" if you're interested. I'm not sure what you're asking...

Oh I see, you just pick and choose your villains. Typical.

The lack of gun control always keeps us hopping. Plus nobody in this thread addressed the huge amounts of pesticides humans drop everywhere. You guys ...

It's part of us now. You may as well accept it. Unvaccinated people aren't my enemies. They're fellow citizens. If you don't like that, I think there'...

Nope. If it's a war, we lost already. All the variants will be endemic in the US.

True.

It's the same thing though, isn't it? Except you don't have to adapt to Canada or Mexico. You can stay home and be governed by those who, by your acco...

Experience is the mother of wisdom, don't you find? It doesn't matter much what I say.

The next president is probably going to be a Trump clone, so all the flat earthers will be in charge again. Should you consider expatriation so as to ...

I hadn't heard anything about it.

That's their problem, not mine.

All hospitals require that their employees have yearly flu vaccines. Only now are they requiring the covid19 vaccine. Why did they wait this long? The...

Kind of off-topic, but if I understand your question, yes.

He talked about how the 'quality of being that comes to rest in the sanctuary of the form' has no beginning or end and there are no words that can des...

It's just a question of whether you're holding that it's impossible in principle to share your experience or if you're going for a softer version of t...

Were you selling something to Sally? Or was she selling something to you? I'm so confused. And tired. Talk at cha later.

Why are you exempt from the valuation process? I mean you've got a value set for Sally and she doesn't even exist. You do. It's ashame that you think ...

You mean it can't be conveyed via language. We can conceive of machinery that would record your experience and make it available to others, so it's me...

What's your evaluation of your own life? wut

There's no way to put a value on a life.

I really don't know what you're talking about. It just doesn't mean anything to me to value people one way or the other. I guess it's working for you,...

You've got quite the cosmic scale working there. Interesting.

So little Johnny thought 5+5=11. You're going to devalue him because he was mistaken? How does that make sense?

So we aren't devaluing people, but rather attitudes, beliefs, and so on. Works for me. Devaluing here just means we're calling out someone's bullshit....

It doesn't have much of a practical effect to devalue people, does it? It's mostly like venting behind someone's back, right?

Oh good. Nothing to see here. Move on.

Oh. I have no idea what that means and the Nazi story didn't help explain it. Sounds pretty benign, though.

Oh thanks. What's the mark of distinction?

See nobody thinks "oh I know it's wrong to hate all asian americans, but I'm doing it anyway!" No, everyone who does this sort of thing believes it's ...

It's a rare person who realizes this, though.

What's really authoritarian is that they removed the statue of Robert E Lee from Richmond. Protesters retaliated by refusing to be vaccinated. :meh:

You mean we're normally irrationally certain that we're unbiased. Yes. But is there some kind of unbiased knowing? Maybe it's always there underneath ...

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Right, so it's a matter of identity.

Ok.

You know what it's like to be personally invested in an issue. How open are you to looking at evidence that you're wrong? Having discussed things with...

A description is like the handle on a coffee cup.

nice. it goes well with rain

What music? Barber's Adagio? or CCR?

Yes. And with that limitation on conceptualization, their behavior is probably more a matter of empathy and conditioning rather than analysis.

I claimed that they don't understand negation. The "no" command is not an example of that. I think you've repeated this three times now, which is bad ...

Which claim? I don't know what an "empirical claim" is. There are claims. Justifications can be empirical. It's kind of rare for a claim to be justifi...

Whether you agree or not, the basic idea is old and has little to do with who's best at reading a dog's mind. Being stands out against non-being. It's...

So knowledge of god wouldn't be propositional?

All the bald monkeys. Where do they all come from?

It doesn't seem likely that you have math floating around your synapses. It sounds like you're saying the brain has something like logic gates to crea...