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It's probably under your bed, then. Weatherford would just be a simple overview: how money appeared in Lydia (as far as we know, it was invented only ...

I think the plan is to bungle through and learn as we go.

If you ever come across a book called ”The History of Money" by Jack Weatherford, I'd be interested in your assessment. He says the invention of money...

Hudson is a fan of Jubilee style debt forgiveness. He wrote an article for the WSJ about it. He may be right. I'm not sure what kind of social apparat...

The British could have defaulted. The US wouldn't have been able to compel repayment, so I don't see his point. Was the US just supposed to hemorrhage...

It's about necessity as it relates to divinity. You can start a thread about God if you want. Just make it philosophical. ”Religion bad” is not philos...

If you want to reply to someone, push the three dots below their post. Then push the arrow. Their name should pop up in your edit box. Did you want to...

Yea they definitely would have burned you at the stake.

jinx

Is ”effeminate" an insult here?

It's just a power play. You can click the reply arrow to signal who you're talking to.

They used to just torture heretics. That seemed to work. Killing them was Plato's idea.

Oh. It looked like he was objecting to the profit part. Yes, you don't need corporations for capitalism.

Capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the s...

True. Revolutions aren't usually planned ahead of time. They start with random explosions of anger that are subsequently channeled into revolution. St...

All the continents are the same age. They're made of granite and they sort of float on top of the mantle like marshmallows in hot chocolate. The mantl...

So your thought is that geothermal energy will solve the coming energy crisis. Could be.

Pit bulls occasionally deglove people's faces. The experts just push the face back on there.

There's no way to force people to be neutral.

QAnon is like early Christianity in that it absorbs anything that's on the outs with the mainstream and energizes it's members with promises of revolu...

Aren't they being allowed to mature? If some were annihilated, like QAnon pockets, isn't that just part of the breeding ground's environment at work?

People like to use high school curriculums as battlegrounds, which is kind of annoying. All we can do is shovel facts and encourage them to think for ...

You win. I'm an idiot. Have a good day. :up:

Honestly, I was thinking: do I really have to explain this? This is one of the many challenges facing physics: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JDmKLXVFJ...

You need to watch more PBS Space Time.

I took you to be saying that volition is problematic because we don't have a schematic for it. The same is true of the big bang We can therefore be sk...

There's no unified theory. We don't know shit.

The same thing happens with cosmology. The universe makes no sense... yet

It makes sense to most people.

nice

I'm just saying look at the things and people in your life as if it's the last time you'll ever see them. Then go back to planning for tomorrow.

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I guess none of us know how long we have. Live now.

They eventually learned it from whites. By that time most of them (in the east) were already part white and/or black.

I would tell him to stop screwing around and get it. It leaves a hole in your life when someone you care about dies.

Somebody I've known for a long time just died of covid. He didn't believe in vaccines.

Are all the territories outrageous?

My offensiveness is a wimp.

My guess is that it was similar to the way native Americans were: some tribes were peaceful to strangers, some tribes were extremely hostile to anyone...

Right, so we aren't entering into new territory, as in "so long free speech.". It's just slavery as usual.

We've always held that dangerous speech should be censored.

I've figured out what nostalgia is all about. It's that when you look back, you experience the past with the comfort of knowing that you survived that...

The way this discussion started was Kenosha saying anthropology has determined that early man was mostly peaceful. They do that by applying their favo...

So you're not worth talking to. :up:

All that data means is that prehistoric humans may have been extremely violent. If you have a hard time accepting that possibility, you need to look a...

No shit.

Notice you're using "darker" to mean bad.

Vomit flavored Zofran. It could come in different varieties like liquor flavored vomit, Chinese food, and of course taco bell.

I was thinking shrimp and beef bourguignon.

I understand what you're saying. One datum looking for interpretation is, as I mentioned earlier, that we appear to have more female ancestors than ma...