Unless no inputs of production are imported into the US and other countries don't reciprocate with anti-US tariffs, then alternative producing countri...
Why will our imports from the US be more expensive unless we impose tariffs on them? Unless you mean more expensive to the extent that the US industri...
@"Banno", And if it's "profitable" ( keeps the industries financially viable) to supply China and India and doesn't stand on our own toes over other g...
All this tariff stuff just means we export elsewhere if the US public doesn't want to pay the tariff. The exporter doesn't pay, the importer's end con...
Simple solution. Have a "Keep the Bastards Honest" party with at least 2 alternating ( one comes up each senate term) senate seats for each state, tha...
@"Wayfarer", Do you imagine/think that the USA would convert to metric if we and the few other contrary countries converted to driving on the wrong si...
@"Arcane Sandwich", Geologically, continents are temporary platforms partly above sea level. Biologically, continents are big petri dishes for life to...
Question. Was it Jeremy Bentham who wrote one paragraph,one sentence, one page long style English? Used to love that. A good primer for short term mem...
@"Arcane Sandwich", You're lucky Gonwanaland, or whatever it's called, broke up, or you may have been lumbered with gum trees as native species. Or no...
Once own a TV with the speakers removed. Favorite shows were stand up comedy. Would have suited Hanover, lots of exaggerated movements, no sound. Coul...
@"Arcane Sandwich", Sounds like the world over, short term gain ignores long term pain. We're all guilty of it... in someway or other, our descendants...
@"Wayfarer", Interested in art (graphic) history. No interest or capability in its creation. Dislike even house painting. A recognized incapacity whic...
@"Ayush Jain", Didn't realize you were lurking. Not being awful to you, but will have to get back as soon as practical (< 24 hrs hopefully) to you. Lo...
@"Banno", Heard the ABC RN Radio interview, a coupla days ago. Meant to mention it. Probably had an influence on above comment. With politics,it's oft...
The major parties look like bleeders after the Vic by-elections. Further drift to cross benches in the primary votes. Minority govt federally looking ...
@"Ayush Jain", The internal logic of this OP appears strong. A three part question though. From where, how and why did the fundamental "curiosity", th...
Perhaps the issue of human relationship to Nature is based, "loosely speaking", on the human belief that Nature is fixed, whether in its manifestation...
@"Wayfarer" &@"Arcane Sandwich", In the late 1960's Australia, A.N.'s watercolours were highly sought after and regarded as breaking away from the Eur...
@"Hanover", Next kid, seen in Boston, with a white plaster of paris covering or moonboot on their appendage will have to be asked "Is that an all male...
@"javi2541997", Thanks for the video. Interesting as an attempt to show a scientific understanding of how we perceive silence, but not too sure about ...
Have we limited our philosophic acknowledgement/understanding of silence by pairing/opposing it to sound/noise because we believe in/accept/get bogged...
@"Shawn", "deterrence" as in fight for what's right? Or follow the leader? Interesting remodelling pic. Who was that Brit actor/comedian? Peter Seller...
shawn, Regards supremacism ( spellcheck hasn't update that -ism yet), probably, when individuals hold themselves as above/better/advantageously differ...
@"Shawn", Isn't it amazing how different human minds interpret. Probably wouldn't have philosophy if we all thought the same. Probably have to do othe...
@"Shawn", Mmm, a stretch. Did get a motorbike/horse rider in the little dark cloud. Any prize for that? Picked too many bunches of bananas in another ...
@"Shawn", That's a relief re pig pic. Still processing above pic though. Will probably be unable to unsee it when it clicks. Btw, are you having an ob...
@"Shawn", Sitting reading this OP and comments in 41C heat. Would you like to speculate on your expected reaction to your contribution? Or is somethin...
@"javi2541997", Not "trust Chinese AI"......heaps of reasons/rationales ranging from the competitive to the suspicious. It is difficult to trust in op...
@"Leontiskos", Sorry for the tardy reply to your question of 4 days ago. Just to clarify, the comment regards "omnipotence" was an attempt to clarify/...
Apart from brief references to Euro populism, this discussion of Laclau's Theory of Populism seems to have evolved into a US political echo chamber on...
Perhaps, another way of looking at Omnipotence is that of being outside of/unrestrained by time. That is, there is no limits of causation, there just ...
Compliant bureaucrats brings to mind the state of whistleblowers' protection, their motivations and the damage or otherwise to their careers. And the ...
@"Banno", Interesting curve put on the meaning/use of "efficiency" for political gain. Used on both sides of the aisle with small adjustments to the s...
@"Tom Storm", Pre-Raeganism, where would this pop notion of lazy pub servants come from and be so persistent in the minds of voters? Or is it ignoranc...
@"Banno", Of course, melodrama is a fringe benefit or smoko break from the clash that philosophic debates tend to take the form of. wry ( sans any sen...
@"Rob J Kennedy" Philosophy is process. Process No expression, no subject, no limit. And Perhaps, any form of teaching of process directs and thereby ...
The usual reactionary move against change by conservatism...rinse and repeat. Keep doing something the same way repeatedly and expect a different outc...
As to AI discussions (yawn) being boring, wait until AI takes over the source/ supply of comedy material. What a world changer that will/has become. @...
Making sense and being entertaining don't have to coexist in the movie industry. Or anywhere, if uni lectures are anything to go by ('are anything by ...
Thanks Banno, Will practice and read and reread and reread ad nauseam, wading through the assumptions of common knowledge until it works. And then pra...
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