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I guess you're talking about boomers and gen-x?

Your sentiments would make more sense if there was a global government. Without that, theres no social contract to support intervention and no taxatio...

Eh, you know what it means, so it must have some use.

If you put a nail into fears, it really hurts and makes more fear.

I would weave this back into the fabric of the topic by asking if we're projecting our nature onto Nature if we see morality in birds. I have a tiny w...

None of this shit matters. The evil underground is only using Biden to cause the downfall of civilization.

interesting, thanks!

So far, I think it means the thing that's missing. Would you agree that purpose cant be explained in terms of matter and energy?

This is chapter one. He talks about causality in relation to a child throwing a stone. He points out that none of the atomic information we may have a...

and all End-directed forms of causality, or purpose, is clearly an aspect of life and consciousness. The term "abstential" is supposed to pick out the...

Not from a distance, as if it's somebody else's crime.

I prefer the expressions of artists like Vonnegut, who was in Dresden when it was bombed, or Kiefer, who grew up playing in the rubble. It's more raw,...

The US didnt have to obviously. Did the British do that on purpose? It doesnt look like they did.

If you negotiate to protect civilians and then crowd civilians around your munitions manufacture, then you're just using the treaty for strategic purp...

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"The singular term Geneva Convention usually denotes the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the aftermath of the Second World War" Ok I'm back. WTF do ...

Maybe it would be a topic for another thread, but I dont see how you could say any treaties would have been in force during ww2. It wasnt a gentlemanl...

The most intensive bombing of Dresden was by the USA, not the British.

I'm mainly just confused about why you would make such shit up. No, they didnt do as well contemporary bombers. They 1940s technology and they flew in...

That requires technology they didnt have.

As all Kurt Vonnegut fans know, Germans swashed their munitions manufacturing in among civilians and POWs. The only way to beat them was to bomb civil...

I think they would, but they're worried about American liberal imperialism crossing the galaxies liberating everyone like freakin Liberation Incorpora...

It needs to be a little more random.

Dont be naive about the dictionary, but do be naive about apples.

That's what the guy says in the other book I'm reading. :grin:

I think aliens would say, "Those creatures kill each other pretty much continuously, and not very efficiently. They bumble around exhausting enormous ...

How much experience to they have with democracy? Are local decisions made democratically? Are judges elected?

Have you gotten to chapter zero? I fell off into a book about the history of the concept of zero, but I'll catch up!

If Russians are playing out a pattern over centuries, maybe it comes from who they are. Same with westerners, especially those influenced by British c...

"Seife urges his readers to peer through the zero down into the abyss of absolute emptiness and out into the infinite expanse of space." :up: got it I...

Czars were usually power brokers. I wonder if that's Putin's role among the oligarchs.

Strangely enough, Saddam asked the American ambassador what the US's response would be to Iraq's invading Kuwait. No coherent message was delivered ba...

A famous example of this would be Assyria. They were relentlessly aggressive and cruel. Eventually Persia organized a coalition to permanently smash t...

So your point is that Hitler was intent on following international law, and to that end, he made sure everything he did was legal?

That's a good question. He came from a very poor background and he worked flea markets with his mother as a child. Maybe there just weren't any clocks...

Customs, such as shaking hands, are regulated by informal social sanctions, aren't they? If I don't present a firm handshake, I won't get the job, or ...

The guy I knew said he learned it from watching TV. Episodes of some show would be exactly 30 minutes long, so he developed a sense for 30 minutes. He...

Putin would claim legitimacy because he just makes such things up as he goes. He knows he is the law as long as there's no one to stop him. The world ...

But does "legal" really mean anything if there is no method of enforcement?

I'm getting there! :D

Could one of you, or anybody, explain why zero was a "troublesome" concept to integrate into science? Was the issue forced by the success of math in m...

Case in point is ISIS, which was generated by long distance fumbling and apathy on the part of the US. The US didnt want to govern the middle east the...

This book presents a new strategy for explaining aboutness, so it might help to compare Dennetts.

Corporate America will just go further off shore than they already are if leftism gains too much. This isnt freaking 1917 where the left has any kind ...

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Still mulling over chapter zero. He says: "Centuries of battling against explanations based on superstition, magic, supernatural beings, and divine pu...

I have next to no sense of time. I was blown away when I found out that other people do. When I started trying to teach myself to guage time, like jus...

See the book Russian Cyber Warfare, Charles River edition. Unless you're actually in Russia, my country is more ethnically Russian than yours. We love...

The US and Russia are already engaged in software warfare where they try to control one another's power grids and so forth. The US caused a Russian pi...

This is one reason I seriously considered voting Trump prior to the pandemic. Political scientists would say this would actually create more global vo...