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This is completely untrue. The intifadas were a response to Israeli invasion, occupation and control of the West Bank and Gaza. To characterize the be...

We have tractors.

Is Finland on fire?

Yea, well your culture sucks too.

Tell that to Thoreau.

Interesting, thanks! Isn't there a concern that blowing up nuclear materials will pollute the area?

So if there's only one universe, what does having a 30% chance of nuclear war mean? How do you come up with the figure?

Why do you have such a fixation on being clear?

. Self sufficiency is an old American thing. You're free to the extent that you're self sufficient, so pulling back from the world stage, increasing t...

Make it so, Number One.

He meant that out of a hundred universes that had a Cuban missile crisis, 30-50 of them had nuclear wars.

Fair enough. What I see is all the emotion involved. Project builders love their projects. There's something a little sadistic about dissection.

I asked AI what happens if you add milk to orange jello and it told me this: "Curdling: The citric acid in the orange jello mix can cause the milk pro...

In this exchange, you're project building and I'm dissecting. You either become fascinated by the mechanics of dissection, or you resist it because yo...

I guess there's supposed to be some kind of argument in there somewhere, but I was looking for facts.

That doesn't mean the people of Iran hate their government.

Partly. Like Judaism, Christianity is partly Persian and Greek.

Why do you think that?

I think they're planning to kill Ali Khamenei. Nothing says let's be friends like killing their religious leader. They think it's the history of their...

So this is about regime change, or it's not, or it is. Christians think the whole Bible belongs to them. They're as fascinated by climbing Mt Sinai at...

I assume so. You said: Is truth a property of statements? Or is it a property of the world? Or what?

What specifically about the world?

There's a 10% chance that a fly is at least 90% sunk in 50% of your ointment.

What is truth?

That's conservative?

Maybe philosophical project building comes from an innate need to make the world predictable, explainable, controllable. Out of project building comes...

Your neighbor tells you their dog ate most of their chickens. Do you: 1. Laugh and remind your neighbor that dogs are predators 2. Express horror at t...

Some people could have a 3000 year hate and they'd still be snarling like a wounded dog.

I doubt that's the cause of the present war. It's that Iran funded Hamas. This is a continuation of the invasion of Gaza, back to it's source. At leas...

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That is so true.

Dude, how did you know that scripture?

So trees used to be humans, but we declassified them.

What if all humans were exactly the same height?

:up: It's abstractions all the way down.

A military is pretty expensive. Lots of taxes.

Try it. Just agree with whatever the person said. It sets you free.

That's probably true.

The reason you never speak without being sarcastic is that you feel vulnerable.

All you need is a sense of right and wrong. Everybody on the planet knows that what Israel did to Gaza was a crime against humanity. There are just a ...

Bullshit.

Dude.

Well, there you go.

He works for an e-commerce company. They don't ride icebergs. Is it really? That's cool.

Are there any left?

As the destination? I guess that would work. Maybe the starting point would be Argentina.

Story 1: This guy is transporting a huge piece of ice through dangerous terrain. He encounters many life threatening hardships, but the chunk of ice g...

The pundits are saying Israel doesn't have the ability to disarm Iran by itself. They want the US to join in to finish the job. Trump appears to be bo...