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Well that didn't sound psychotic at all.

I don't know where this is coming from. Why would empirical verification be a problem if an item is independent of us?

Newton's conception of time was as something independent of us, right?

error

If Carlo Rovelli is right that time is coming from the way we perceive the universe, then time exists, it's just not what we often conceive it to be, ...

Nothing

What?

The US debt is mainly to US banks.

I think all large banks keep foreign currency reserves.

It's better than military influence, right?

You know, Japan started that.

Thank you!

Mark Blyth said the Russians asked the Chinese to ditch the dollar (which could have resulted in a run on the dollar). The Chinese refused because the...

How do Americans benefit from the dollar being used in global trade? It's just something the world did because of perceived American stability.

EU countries were terrible vassals. They never paid any tribute. :grin: How so?

Thank you for saying this. I wish Mikie the best. I hope he finds a way to let go of whatever it is that makes him lean into bitterness. I hope he fin...

I'm just saying that it looks like you flamed for years and years, and now you want the moderators to do something about the fact that your thread is ...

This is another of Mikie's comments from a week ago: If what we desire is a high quality thread, maybe cut down on the childish flaming? I mean, these...

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This is a comment from Mikie to Agree-to-Disagree from a week ago:

Then your point is that they should ban Agree-to-Disagree? I think he's the only person who posts on that that thread with any regularity (other than ...

Why not make a new thread devoted to climate change links, like a reddit style listing. Leave the climate change thread for general discussion, includ...

Some languages have two verbs that mean "to be.". One is for matters of identity, and the other is for transient states. That probably affects the way...

That's ok. I've thought a lot about time and identity. Just wondering what your thoughts were. :up:

What is the nature of identity?

So they're the same, but they're not the same?

So they aren't actually different.

Well, didn't you say the Banno from the past is different from the Banno in the present? So they couldn't be in the same room at the same time, right?...

Can anything from the past coexist with the stuff in the present?

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Some expected him to announce a massive withdrawal of troops from Europe. That didn't happen. Yet.

True. https://i.imgur.com/c1DsVOV.jpeg

Lopsided, yes. "America First"

The US domestic market.

I think the goal is to shut the rest of the world out of the US market.

Keepin' it real, man.

You're misunderstanding me. I was being completely honest. I wanted you to think about it going forward.

What does that have to do with anything?

Very funny.

This was my goodbye message to him. Don't defend abusive people.

Dude. She was abusive to everybody every single day.

And you really believe this is what was happening?

Mikie was just one long stream of verbal abuse. There wasn't even any philosophy in it. Just abuse. You defended her every step of the way. Why did yo...

You defended people who were abusive. Maybe don't do that in real life.

It occurs to me that democracy probably wouldn't mean much to a sociopath.

Gaslighter. :lol:

I think you're the usual suspect in this case. You're repeating manufactured talking points like a good little soldier. :grin:

Biden didn't defy the Supreme Court.

So why do people freak out like they're losing something? Why the lamentations in this thread?