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I can't get into science fiction or fantasy and find such things as Harry Potter hopelessly boring. I'm not sure what it is about my personality that ...

I remember not so long ago when it used to be so amazing to be nostalgic. Things were better then. There's not the respect for yesterday like there wa...

Don't talk about my wife that way. Not cool.

In Georgia, if you maintain a B average, 80% of your college is funded by the state. An A average, 90%. Maybe one day Australia will catch up.

Got my three daily quips in within five minutes. Check, check, and check. Done for the day.

They were better in that we were all more steps further from death. Nostalgia is what gives us the ability to have remorse, regret, and tearful sentim...

Lost me at ketchup.

I'm on it. Canvassing the streets as we speak.

I'd categorize this as somewhere between playful and derisive, as you are aware of my lack of seriousness, but you probably do have some level of feel...

I'd have to go back and study the litany of complaints itemized in her song, but I believe mine is different. She describes various things that suck, ...

What you say is true, which is yet another reason why my presence on this board is critical. That is sarcasm, not irony by the way. That's something e...

For all sorts of information on homelessness in the US, see: https://policyadvice.net/insurance/insights/homelessness-statistics/#:~:text=Percentage%2...

The world is unfair, so that's a hell of a battle. If there is a housing issue that needs to be addressed, that's the government's role, not just drop...

What do you expect the end result to be from that fight? That he'll be granted the right to live there forever, or, do you suspect that at best he'll ...

I'm not trying to be unsympathetic because it truly sucks to be evicted from your home and have to face finding a new place. I'm just not clear really...

You'd have to look up the law that governs the particular state. Georgia, for example: https://georgettemillerlaw.com/happens-renters-property-foreclo...

So I read Jack's email as indicating he was being evicted due to a repossession, which could mean (and we both have insufficient information here), th...

You mix an empirical claim with a moral claim. Whether shutting down Trump reduces the influence of Trump is an empirical question, and the data indic...

Much like when one first looks out at a sunset at the Grand Canyon, a state of awe overwhelms, a single tear rolls down the cheek, and the purest sile...

It can be said he is fueling those with conspiratorial mindsets, just not causing them.

No, it's just self-promotion, which is the driver of all social media. He's trying to show that his new branded version is better than the old, so eve...

You may not be American, so I'll judge you less harshly because you may be in the right where you are, but whenever someone questions my judgement in ...

Because falling from high places causes death. It has to do with the body's lack of elasticity. A ball will bounce. A body will bounce some, but mostl...

My position is that if there is insufficient evidence to support a theory other than that there might be a motive by some people to commit a certain a...

Such is a conspiracy theory in itself. I take a conspiracy theory to be a theory based upon perceived self-serving or malicious motives by the actor w...

I don't agree with this because that assumes anyone was arguing for complete control of the media by a regulatory body. If you look at the FCC site I ...

It's difficult to know where to draw lines. We fortunately (right now) have sufficient social controls to regulate openly racist commentary, meaning w...

The FCC already maintains some regulatory control over the airwaves because it considers them public property, but, even then it is very limited. "Con...

Speaking truth to power.

Actually, what makes the Hebrew Bible unusual is that argument with God is acceptable and even shown to be effective. Two prime examples are Genesis 1...

The Nazis were better known for Goebbels and the use of the media for propoganda. Why do you prefer the free exercise of propoganda by government acto...

I suppose we'll wait and see, and maybe he'll censor reasonably. I only know he proclaimed himself a free speech absolutist and reopened previously cl...

Government censorship is an evil to be sure, but so is government propoganda. Should Trump or Biden or their minions post false information, is that n...

I'd prefer the now antiquated concept of self regulation, where news outlets adhere to journalistic standards. That used to be a thing.

There is always censorship do to lack of resources, meaning those who publish do so only after securing the means to publish from those owning the mea...

So a car slides off the road and injures the passenger, the cause being low tire tread, a truly unfortunate event. A mile away a speeding drunk driver...

Hopefully oncoming traffic will interpret the same way you do.

You jettison emotion as if it were not a critical component here. Emotion is is that which moves and motivates, the word itself referencing motion. Th...

It relates to scripture, but you can use the term sarcastically when someone is going to great lengths to make sense of something that doesn't make a ...

Like much of Wittgenstein, it's ineffable, understandable only through midrash.

Moral condemnation versus punishments aimed a deterring future antisocial behavior are not mutually exclusive. That is, it is possible that the condem...

I'd have to go back and re-read it, but I didn't consider the significance of Haidt's book to be so much as providing evidence of the source of our mo...

If the subjugation of a minority resulted in a preferred form of order, would you declare it moral? If, on the other hand, you under-analyzed this que...

Nice quote. If the University of Georgia loses the national championship, I'm going to the grocery store and I'll knock over the green bean display, t...

In Belgium they rioted and attacked the police in response to their World Cup loss to Morocco. So it's just a ball being kicked around a field, or is ...

There are a few Baywatch calendars I might have chosen over the Hoff's, but to each his own.

When you die, can I have first dibs on all your shit? It'll save you mom the stress of having to sort through your stuff.

Ask your dentist about that, but book right away. I hear it takes a few years to get in.

It grew that way in the magical forest. I expect in a few weeks it will shed gifts underneath it like it does every year.

Plenty of miles left in them. Not sure why you got rid of them. You're probably the sort who throws out not fully empty toothpaste tubes.