So I looked up the sort of music a beatnik might listen to and it was cool jazz, so combining that with punk, I arrived at jazz punk, which turns out ...
It was 77. I almost said 75, which would have been closer, but I went earlier because it sounded more old school than the 80s, but I call my guess pre...
They sounded more 60ish than what I posted and folksy or something, like they had something to say. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give them a solid B. @"Ba...
The assembly line began long ago, making the artisan no longer needed and leaving the systemitizing to the managers. There will always be boxes to car...
As a capitalistic theist Jew straight fucker, I find sitting in the pews of empty churches, especially small quaint ones, among the most peaceful plac...
Why do you ask if I'm open to it unless you think I have a choice in the matter? Say whatever you will, as you must, and speak of Schopenhauer. While ...
Assuming determinism is true, the determinist will say whatever the determinist says, and he might say the judge exercised a completely free will, but...
If you you say that you know you're going to work because you're in the car, my response would be that you know what it's in your head and you're bark...
It means you were going to do X. You have know way of knowing what you did, why you did it, or whether it was learned or always known. The impossibili...
Sure, and you were forced to say that by these constraints and me to say otherwise, which is the meaninglessness of determinism and which is even more...
I do wonder about this sometimes. I have been struck by the number of Christians on this board who have expressed similar sentiments, and it was forei...
Life is competitive to the extent you have to compete for the things you need, some having to compete harder, some having had things provided more eas...
How does the additional fact of now knowing of Descartes' predilection for dog hammering affect your previous understanding of the Meditations? This j...
It seems the question was whether Descartes' position regarding animals was consistent with the times, and an article from the National Institute of H...
Let's explore this then. Was Descartes a product of his time or was he fucked up even for someone living in the 17th century? This article indicates t...
So dogs eyes don't tear up when they cry, but aside from that, animal welfare in developing countries is far worse than in developed countries. That's...
Descartes held to a view that human beings alone were able to reason and that reason arose from their immortal soul, distinguishing humans from animal...
Whether Descartes liked to harm animals and created an argument that they didn't feel pain so as to justify his sadism is possible, but that's not con...
Descartes' contribution to the world remains unimpacted by whatever cruelties he brought about. It's all ad hom. And really, to the extent you're tryi...
I was looking for a way to make homemade tandoori chicken, but it looked like that would require a heavy investment into a tandoori oven, so I nixed t...
Your attempt to draw a nexus between the rule of law, freedom, and the sanctity of life on the one hand with an adherence to traditional sexual mores ...
They actually did a study with video cameras being placed under surveillance and found that the cameras being watched watched others more watchfully b...
That statement reveals an interesting perspective, which is that the availability of women for sexual arousal purposes is a commodity and it historica...
This is just circular ideology. You argue that free speech is holy and it's therefore necessarily sinful to censor, so it's unnecessary that we calcul...
A lot of great movies listed here. Instead of repeating any, I thought I'd add these that weren't mentioned yet, with my one sentence review: One Flew...
No, I just looked for a site about the communist famines and that popped up. If you go to the site's drop down menu and hit the About tab, it'll tell ...
Here's an intersting article about agriculture policies in communist countries in recent history. https://broadstreet.blog/2021/04/30/a-tale-of-two-fa...
I just watched a number of videos to better understand pneumatic brake systems, and if I have this right, the air pressure exerts pressure on the drum...
Found this study supportive of what you said: "In a clinical study of 9,000 cats studied over eight years, placed under constant video surveillance by...
Although cucumbersome to wear, I do think a cucumberbund should be worn to such an occasion. I take pride in the fact that my random picture of an aco...
I think the Golden Rule states it more clearly and I think it overcomes the problems of the masochist who enjoys pain, as if that person ought impose ...
The amount the workers are paid is no more determined by fairness than is the amount the owners are paid nor is a fairness standard used to determine ...
In Manhattan there's an old world pickle place, where you can get pickled everything. I had some pickled pineapple. After the invention of the refrige...
So once in a blue moon I make an off color joke and I'm a perv, but here you talk about Mother Theresa straddling a cucumber in her cooter and it's ju...
English cucumbers look like zucchinis but they instead taste like tough cucumbers. I imagine they look that way because there's no sun in England and ...
That's not actually what I said. I'll acknowledge the US has done things it shouldn't have. My point is that there is a way to compare the two, and it...
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