Don’t believe everything you see in the media. Putin isn’t leaving any time soon. He is going to flood the Donbas and Crimea with as many soldiers as ...
Scary stuff. Russia will continue falling back to the Donbas and Crimea if need be. Putin's decision to mobilize is not a popular one in Russia, but e...
You have a good memory. I worked for a police department many years ago. I do real estate investment now =] Russia’s goals are summarized well by boet...
I was fighting in Ukraine in spring when Russia had invaded Kyiv Oblast and was attacking Irpin, Bucha, Brovary, and other surrounding cities. The big...
As long as ordnance and equipment continues flowing into Ukraine, Ukraine will not stop until all of the Donbas is reclaimed. Ukrainians are mad and e...
I think that's right. We have to pick our spots and initiate counterattacks only when opportunities present themselves. So far the Russians have been ...
I think that's right. We have enough manpower (for now), but as the Ukrainian counterattacks ramp up, this will start to change. Since the start of th...
Ah no, you thought wrong then. That’s the slogan of Los Angeles Police Department — frequently misattributed to other police departments. I suspect it...
Yes, well, I believe that counseling, in many cases, does not produce much beyond short-term cathartic effects in its patients. As to why Americans of...
Thanks. I read the article. It was actually an interesting read, though I was left with a strong feeling that he was embellishing several of his stori...
When someone says, “Defund the police,” I usually want to ask them which police department they are referring to. Or do they mean police departments s...
Floyd's criminal history does not, and should not, play a role in whether Chauvin is convicted of murder. What's at stake is rather whether Chauvin's ...
Yes, I think they could, for reasons of prudential self-interest if for nothing else. That looks really bad for Buffalo PD :grimace: Yeah, that's a go...
Since you asked me, I'll try to give you some insight into what the police were probably thinking. This comes with the disclaimer that this is an expl...
Yes, I agree. A lot of police stop hanging around their regular non-police friends after a while because they just have more in common with their co-w...
This is interesting because I am in agreement with you. Sinyangwe’s twitter post uses Oakland Police Department as an example of a more “reformed” law...
:up: I appreciate it. I'm glad for you too. Whether it's New York, Oakland, Philly, or Mumbai, the locale matters not. All around the world it's the s...
It can be difficult sometimes to point to some particular policy within a law enforcement agency and say, “There. That one is racist.” I think what ma...
Just the other day I saw in another thread someone saying, "Virtue Ethics? No, it's too thin. It doesn't give us enough answers. We need something str...
For the ancient Greeks and Romans, morality just referred to proper manners, behavior, or comportment. "Moral obligation," as we understand it in a co...
This. Your objections will always stand because Chris doesn't even understand half of the criticisms being put in front of him. His responses clearly ...
I think I touched on that here: "There is also an element of sorge that connotes something almost like 'anxiety,' which relates to Heidegger's concept...
First you asked, "why did he have to call it care?" (emphasis mine), which is something different than needing to "understand what 'care' means," as y...
Not voting. Voted every year since I was able to, but this year I accidentally threw away my mail-in ballot. It would have been a superfluous vote any...
I think this is right. There is also an element of sorge that connotes something almost like "anxiety," which relates to Heidegger's conception of das...
Thanks. I’m not sure if I understand the question, but let me say more. Remember thus far Heidegger has explained dasein as a being that takes a stand...
Yeah. Anyway, I remember having this conversation about the "absorbed" part with Dreyfus (RIP) when I was a student, and he said when we talk about da...
That's not what I am saying. I'm saying that the defining characteristic of dasein is that it expresses a certain way of taking over itself in its act...
As far as I can tell you are just arbitrarily saying we can't hurt the minority, and this conclusion doesn't follow from any of the principles you sup...
But they do have a rational argument. Their society is experiencing a boom in industry and commerce, health and life expectancy, more aggregate happin...
I think your defense is one step removed from where it needs to take place. It doesn't matter how their way of life came to be. The point is that it's...
So how do you define well-being, Christoffer? And how does well-being compute, if at all, into what you are proposing? TMF is quite right to point out...
OK, I didn't think you would bite the bullet on that one. But let me say more: How does this theory escape some of the traditional criticisms leveled ...
Well, this point of mine started as somewhat of an aside, where the conclusion of that post was critical of Trump. In so many words I said, "Well, to ...
My take was that he was (a) suggesting looking into an injectable treatment that had the same kind of quick-working cleansing effect that disinfectant...
Actually, that's right. In any case, here I'm not concerned with what someone "couldn't possibly actually mean," rather what someone actually said, an...
In another possible world people play Tetris all day. They are otherwise physically and psychologically healthy people, but they make the decision to ...
It might help to think of dasein in terms of dealing or coping with things at the most basic level; that is, a level involving unreflective, unthinkin...
Many philosophers prior to Heidegger thought that we could give an exhaustive account of the world by explicating substances and their properties. It ...
I can agree with that. Ridicule is appropriate as long as we are able to grasp the nuance I stated in the last post. Otherwise, using it as a form of ...
Yes, well, there was one time where he admitted he was wrong about something while in office; but he made such a big deal about it that you couldn't h...
Is there a reason why NOS4A2 is being treated like this? I searched his post history expecting to find him trolling or flaming, but his posts have act...
Yeah, well, people tend to be easily swayed by rhetoric and celebrity. Living in Northern California you get the impression that everyone hates Trump,...
I think these warnings have more to do with (a) them knowing that there are a lot of stupid people in the country, and (b) liability (moreso in Lysol'...
You are a Dutchman, and the Dutch are on balance smarter than Americans. Plus, you are smarter than the average Dutchman, so this would practically ma...
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