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He hangs out with Christian nationalists, but hasn't claimed to be one himself, unless you know where he's said otherwise? The people who are worried ...

The situation is definitely in flux. How do you see it playing out? I don't really see a coherent foreign policy in any of that, though. I really thin...

May I be free of suffering and the roots of suffering May I be free of fear. May I be free of anger. May I be free of craving and aversion. I've just ...

I don't think it's making the US difficult to govern. Most Americans are fairly sheep-like in person. They just want to feed their families and, so fa...

Since American foreign policy changes every four years, it's probably better to just react to events in the moment and forestall any long term plans (...

What makes you think they're Republican?

Do you think this might be a little closed minded? Remember, the way out of chinese puzzle isn't to pull backward. It's to push forward.

Eric Cline says the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the book of Exodus are probably memories from the same time period.

But what if AI helps us solve the problem?

https://youtu.be/gnbSuaLEP88?si=E5dhGCcqmUdfnvKI

In terms of the US relationship with Europe, yes, it would be a blow. Taking over a failed state is a big open-ended mess, though. I heard the power i...

I don't know if you meant to put this in the climate change thread, but it's true that an AI data center is supposed to require gigawatts. I haven't l...

I'd say so.

Squirrel seeks shelter: https://youtu.be/ZI5mBS1jhjY?si=6AFakVmkGtjIojq6

Kripke specifically says the statement he's analyzing, ("H20 is water") is an expression of a scientific discovery (N&N pg. 128). Still, this is too f...

Gotcha. Do you think it's true that water is H20?

Rigid designation is for proper names. We can use "water" as a proper name like this: The water in the pool could have been more alkaline. that bolded...

Me neither. I was just reporting that further congressional limitations on war power are kind of dubious until we test the ones already on the books.

The laws Congress has already passed to limit war power haven't been tested in the supreme court, so it's expected that some president will ignore the...

I think you just like the name: Brookings Institute.

I think you're looking for some all-purpose meaning to "air" like we might find in a dictionary. We aren't concerned with that with rigid designation....

I see.

Venezuela was already a failed state. How much worse could it get?

Why would it shock you if it wouldn't surprise you? :chin:

I suppose so.

I think this was a movie starring Liam Neeson and it didn't go well.

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Quantum physics started with Einstein wondering why iron glows when it gets hot. I think you'd tell Einstein to stop lollygagging and get back to maki...

After reading all this stuff about how Germany cracked during WW2, I accidentally listened to Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra. It freaked me out

Nevertheless, Derrida's critique is about a tendency to ignore ABSENCE and DIFFERENCE in favor of presence, as in the presence of the color blue, vers...

If you mean presence and absence are aspects of change, then yes. But presence and absence go eat beyond that, so we don't have to confine ourselves t...

This blurb suggests that it's not primarily about time. It's about presence versus absence. Do you have a quote that contradicts this? . here

Apparently they have a lot of minerals the US needs.

A reporter just asked who's in charge in Venezuela and Trump basically said the US is. We just freakin' annexed Venezuela?

Exactly.

I remember it as God pooping out of the sky. I don't remember a cathedral.

Jung would say you have a Heidegger complex.

If you look at a sculpture and notice the negative space around it, it may occur to you that this negative space makes the statue possible. The statue...

Yes. Declining population is a looming problem for China, South Korea, and Japan. Europe and the US attract immigrants to offset the decline, but that...

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AI says happy new year! https://i.imgur.com/R3KVaC3.jpeg Not really. It was me.

Some men may downplay concerns about climate change because it's perceived to be feminine. Previous studies have shown that women are more concerned a...

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I suggested that previously in this thread. I'm reading a book called Another Country which covers the intellectual scene in Germany after the war and...

According to this essay, it's rationality itself he wants people to learn to get past. This is the kind of thing that Habermas wouldn't have been able...

Okay?

The placeholder symbol they're talking about came from the Babylonian practice of recording abacus results onto clay. Where there was no bead on the a...

Steiner wasn't saying that Being and Time doesn't make sense. He was explaining that it's incomplete and that people who heard him speak said his lect...