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We've considered why right winged interests would not enthusiastically embrace Magma Energy; now let's consider why left winged - supposed environment...
June 08, 2025 at 06:53
Would it help if I set up a link for you to click on? Really lay into you behind the scenes, and then come back on stage all smiles? Why would you thi...
June 08, 2025 at 06:15
Am I hypocrite Banno? Am I displaying masculine fragility and projection? How am I not to be offended by that; particularly as I'm the one who's expre...
June 08, 2025 at 02:51
Why would you think I was saying that to dear old Banno? I'm just wondering how I might distinguish myself, in future, from a bar of soap - should the...
June 08, 2025 at 02:41
When was the last time you were told to go fuck yourself by a bar of soap?
June 08, 2025 at 02:33
Are any of us?
June 08, 2025 at 02:29
Don't put me in one of your boxes - I'm not that guy and you know it. I'm not a climate denier; my disagreement is with limits to growth because Earth...
June 08, 2025 at 02:26
It's not her life though; because enforced consensus leaves no space to back down. Her decisions are not her own; they are those of the group - a grou...
June 08, 2025 at 02:21
If her silly little boat isn't stopped by Western forces, Greta Thunberg is going to get herself killed, and those who would delete my posts are going...
June 08, 2025 at 01:45
I'm either right about subjectivism and Limits to Growth being wrong, or I'm insane, because it's unreasonable to think I'm right and everyone else is...
June 08, 2025 at 01:18
Then you are already two steps behind!
June 07, 2025 at 16:51
No. I wrote that 'for around 1.5m years homo sapiens were making stone hand axes. Then suddenly, there was a change in behaviour...speaking to a chang...
June 07, 2025 at 16:47
Yeah, please, don't nitpick it apart!
June 07, 2025 at 16:38
I wasn't trying to convey a timeline as it is not the relevant issue. What is your purpose in establishing a correct timeline? Is there a point you ar...
June 07, 2025 at 16:20
It is, strictly speaking correct to say homo sapiens have been around for 200,000 years, but it's also true that the ancestors of homo sapiens have be...
June 07, 2025 at 15:55
I don't assume a subjective imposition of qualities; that's the whole point. The apple IS red, and I SEE a red apple. And what is more - so do you! Th...
June 07, 2025 at 11:42
Oh no, it's sunny and yet my beer stays cold! Whaaa!
June 07, 2025 at 10:50
I want to read Wayfarer's post in The Mind Created World, but it's quite long and I haven't had breakfast yet. If there were a reader; like for blind ...
June 07, 2025 at 10:13
In James Reeve's The Neanderthal Enigma he describes how homo sapiens spent about 1.5m years making the same stone hand axes. Then suddenly, in the ar...
June 07, 2025 at 10:03
Whereas an evil demon who maybe keeps our brain in a jar is a justifiable methodological device? Net down for your serve again! There are sound waves ...
June 07, 2025 at 09:19
I'm sure I've explained how Galileo was right; while Descartes wrote Meditations as a preemptive defence against impeachment by the Inquisition. I'm n...
June 07, 2025 at 08:38
I was expecting an even longer response, and dreading my even longer response to your even longer response. I respect your initiative in breaking the ...
June 07, 2025 at 00:56
It does for me, but I guess that's because the findings are consistent with what I believed anyway. The problem for you is explaining how intersubject...
June 07, 2025 at 00:50
We observe a state of affairs. The state of being conscious of a world existing externally to ourselves. Is it an empirical observation? Yes and no. Y...
June 07, 2025 at 00:25
There was an interesting experiment described by youtube science communicator Sabine Hossenfelder on measuring qualia. They put people in an MRI machi...
June 06, 2025 at 23:12
I'd rather not keep this ball in the air. Would you like to discuss something else? May I suggest horticulture? Or the novels of the Bronte sisters?
June 06, 2025 at 22:48
Okay then. If you wish, delete all my posts back to the joke, and delete that as well. I probably wouldn't have posted it sober, and I don't feel grea...
June 06, 2025 at 22:20
You're not afraid of a contradiction, are you? It's not my job to worry about what other people are responsible for. You may deny it, but you are resp...
June 06, 2025 at 21:02
In Madness and Civilisation Micheal Foucault describes how the extremes define the norm; that even if you disagree with someone's opinion, you should ...
June 06, 2025 at 20:34
I see it now in a book of the world's wittiest remarks: "Yawn" - Hanover, 2025! Brilliant. How did you think of that?
June 06, 2025 at 19:31
If you cannot see the irony in lefty causes promoting the cause of deeply conservative religious terrorists; and you think it's crazy to make a joke p...
June 06, 2025 at 18:02
I think Jamal is correct. I can't believe I've been using the wrong spelling of the word rein all these years. Must have been about four times!
June 06, 2025 at 14:42
Look up images of 'the penny hang' - and tell me that's not the origin of the term hangover!
June 06, 2025 at 14:40
Thanks for the warning. I'll try to reign it in. I'll strive to sublimate my personality to conform to someone else's values - because the last thing ...
June 06, 2025 at 14:21
By teaming up, they've both shown what unprincipled grifters they are. Anytime someone says anything like "you can't say that it's homophobic" - you g...
June 06, 2025 at 13:13
Is my “red” your “red”?: Evaluating structural correspondences between color similarity judgments using unsupervised alignment Genji Kawakita1,2,7 ? A...
June 06, 2025 at 10:20
Not dualistic in the sense a subjectivist infers or employs dualism. I accept there's an object world, and subjective experience of it. I'll answer th...
June 06, 2025 at 10:02
Traffic lights. Their very existence presupposes a commonality of perception. And they're everywhere! As is art, colour coded electrical wires, signs ...
June 06, 2025 at 07:35
Good question. Subjectivists are very much - offence is in the eye of the beholder, such that my intent would be irrelevant to their offence taking. I...
June 06, 2025 at 06:56
I don't think dualism is an assumption. It's a description of a state of affairs. It's like saying gravity is an assumption. What reasonable evidence ...
June 06, 2025 at 06:35
Thanks. I had some vermu's and forgot!
June 06, 2025 at 06:13
President Trump's best friend Vlad is a problem, because, while the US is a big fossil fuel energy producer, the US would not need to divest and diver...
June 05, 2025 at 19:17
LGBTQHAMAS!
June 05, 2025 at 15:28
No! Not if he was saying black, black, black, err, no I meant white! No! That strongly implies an external influence. And we know what that influence ...
June 05, 2025 at 14:25
I'm doing exactly what it is I need to do; and it's not my fault I haven't succeeded in convincing the world of the virtues of Magma Energy. It's a be...
June 05, 2025 at 08:51
As far as I recall I have never eaten on, or from a barrel. Indeed, I cannot remember the last time I ate with someone else. I don't imagine Diogenes ...
June 05, 2025 at 06:30
No, you're not being clear, you're being intellectually dishonest - admitting Descartes was self censoring, but refusing to draw the conclusion that h...
June 05, 2025 at 05:50
President Donald J. Trump, First of all congratulations, on, well, everything. Everything you're doing is just so great. I'm sure you're absolutely ri...
June 05, 2025 at 03:53
Science without philosophical implication; science as a tool with no claim to be a rule for the conduct of human affairs? You might call that flourish...
June 04, 2025 at 23:33
Descartes died in 1650, 9 years after publishing Mediations in 1641; after contracting a cold in the Court of Queen Christina of Sweden. All his scien...
June 04, 2025 at 23:24