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No idea why you've felt the need to say im 'playing dumb'. I think you've made a dumb point. There is no 'largely agreed upon' standard for annoyance ...

I'm unsure this is reasonable in any sense. Your subjective assessment of 'being annoyed' or offended means literally nothing helpful here. Even colle...

Weirdly apt - currently listening to this exact discussion between Josh Rasmussen and Alex O'Connor right now. Material from mind.

You may find it so. But I don't know enough to make a call. The current situation seems fine, but i have no basis for comparison. A preference is very...

Tonys at Knickerbocker and Dekalb. From what i can tell, they just play Goodfellas all day every day haha I came immediately after Trump's election. L...

Seconded, in a very forthright fashion. Tony's on Knickerbocker and Empire are some of hte best I've ever had. That said, I purposely sampled 30 pizze...

This plain and simple will not happen. Happy to 'suck it and see' on this one. More a prediction

Cool story? I don't mean to be dismissive, but this seems to just be an observation. I am neither of the things outlined, so doesn't seem to... relate...

Is the issue with my use of 'appear'? I got through a passage this morning around A193 "Possibility of Causality through Freedom, in Harmony with the ...

Ok, that's quite clear - thank you!

I can't see how. Guess I was wanting to know how... Both are subjective opinion. But it can be objective that someone thinks something of you.

A proportionate response. Do with that what you will. I am also, extremely tired of people who think they have the answers to geopolitical issues like...

This may be one of the better posts i've had aimed at me. Thanks Hanover LOL

It's not my fault if you require an answer I am unable to give.

That's fair; I should have restricted my use of the term. Thank you.

I'm not. And that fact (though, I deny the truth of it) wouldn't change what i've suggested im trying to do. Hmm. I have a feeling this is going to go...

Ah ok, this is bringing a bit of focus for me - I supppose i would still, prima facie, reject the distinction - but this is much clearer for where you...

Jiu jitsu!!

Wait, what? How is this the case?

I was stupidly imprecise, and was meant to impugn "the war on terror" such as it was.

Fantastic; thanks very much for the rec! Superficially related, the "D" in my name stands for Diamond :)

Why would I consider that? I haven't given any opinion on it whatsoever, and it isn't relevant. Equivocating between several completely disparate reta...

Thus Spake Zarathustra I believe, but @"Vaskane" is your man.

Fair enough. I've only seen takes on Sentience that include affective, subjectively "positive or negative valence"-type consciousness so that was my s...

If you showed something resembling a reasonability to the subject, you might be getting answers. Currently you're behaving like a derranged Twitter us...

That's not a reasonable question to ask. And, I didn't indicate i approved of the Hiroshima./Nagasaki bombings anyway. The level of assumptions you're...

I think many do, but I am going off what I understand is used in the field.. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/sentience#:~:text=Senti...

If you truly think they are comparable, you are out of your mind.

Not at all. I just think you're clearly wrong. Something must be presented to our sense organs to even perceive that something has happened (viz a viz...

If you can quote where i've said that, I'd be happy to answer. As it is, I'm not a strawfan.

I agree. But to my mind, taking it seriously as an actual imminent (lets say, within Trump's impending term) possibility is very much misguided. I hop...

From what I understand from cognitive science, the hierarchy is Consciousness->Sentience->whatever you want to call higher-level functions of sentient...

How much straw can a straw man straw. You must be out of your mind.

That's another strawman, and an unrelated example. No one, at all, has even mentioned teh American involvement in WWII. 1200 23,000 Don't pretend this...

For sure, I'm not aligned with either so no issues putting that on the table... IMO both parties have a huge amount to answer for (though, i don't thi...

1200 23,000. Read those over, and over, and over until you have something less strawman to say :)

Fair that you're using hyperbole - But if the above lands it in 'fascist' territory I am at a complete loss as to what history books you're reading fr...

uhhhh...... Krystallnacht was embodied in: "Jewish homes, hospitals and schools were ransacked as attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers. R...

..and i don't think any amount of massaging the context can obfuscate this. It seems patent.

How come there's been no delineation here between Consciousness and Sentience? It seems to me anything responding to outside stimuli is conscious, in ...

Fair enough. None of them confuse me - It's their application that's the problem. But this seems clear to you also :) Ok, cool. Not just me then LOL.

My question was more about people using Trump, rather than allying with him but i suppose you are esoterically covering that in giving little credence...

Hmm, that's true, and a blindspot of sorts for my thinking. Is this suggesting (i'm enquiring, not side-eyeing, to be clear) that we could expect othe...

Of course. Im just unconvinced of the reasonableness of reading it in a way that gets to worrying about impending totalitarianism/dictatorship/fascism...

These seem to be hard-to-define, usually-incorrectly-attributed, subjective and naive things to consider... (minus the underlined). Am I noticing a so...

I do not think that either, but I do not think we are seeing anything in the realm of the correct set of circumstances to pretend its likely to occur ...

I am aware they are two different things, but under the impression the words i used are interchangeable for banana.

@"Tom Storm" @"schopenhauer1" https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/items/596313fa-4545-4735-8a75-299c5b91fe8a "Thus, active-duty enlisted personnel who...

As far as my Spanish lessons taugh me, Platano, cambur or banano are OK for banana?

I do not think this is in the realm of a reasonable expectation, though. There are some really, really wild leaps being made between his toddler-like ...