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In a democracy politicians are required to appeal to unfair epistemic social standards to get elected; and then make laws that embed those unfair epis...
May 26, 2022 at 10:40
I don't know about the beloved bit, but counterpunch was spot on about Magma Energy. This is from NASA - published in 1982, a proven source of limitle...
May 26, 2022 at 03:13
I don't care that you don't care about this; precisely because you fail to appreciate the philosophical significance, I've taken great pains to explai...
May 26, 2022 at 02:44
Is that a typo? Originally, you said 'men' - now it's 'me' - but maybe that 'me' is a typo. — karl stone I see! Well, there are a lot of you 'angry me...
May 26, 2022 at 02:10
Is that a typo? Originally, you said 'men' - now it's 'me' - but maybe that 'me' is a typo. Again, I'm kind of suspicious there's a long line of women...
May 25, 2022 at 19:38
But you did say: Double standard, don't you think? Reflective of the double standard inherent to politically correct identity politics, that paints so...
May 25, 2022 at 19:20
'The personal is political', also termed 'The private is political' is a political argument used as a rallying slogan of student movement and second-w...
May 25, 2022 at 19:02
Have a lot of women used political language to compain about you - or vice versa?
May 25, 2022 at 18:49
Okay, but the trial isn't taking place here - it's taking place in the real world, with millions of people, the press and everyone watching. There's g...
May 25, 2022 at 17:28
Justice; in relation to the politically correct notion that "victims" should be believed; and if you don't accept the victim narrative you're a bigot....
May 25, 2022 at 16:31
Yeah, sure. I'm chill, but I can't pretend not to take philsophy seriously, and I'm saying there are important philosophical issues here, that's all. ...
May 25, 2022 at 16:23
To me; the celebs personal lives are almost irrelevent to the political issues at stake. If you're saying you don't percieve any such implications, I'...
May 25, 2022 at 16:10
You demonstrate my point. I'm watching the trial; and I'm no-one's fool. If I thought Depp was beating up Heard I'd condemn him, but I don't. Holding ...
May 25, 2022 at 16:00
I think it's an important case; not because of the specifics of their relationship, but for the implications vis politically correct use of stigma, th...
May 25, 2022 at 15:34
Is anyone watching the Depp/Heard case?
May 25, 2022 at 13:33
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I wonder whether the record will ever be set straight...
May 25, 2022 at 12:56
Panspermia doesn't answer the question; rather it punts the question into the cosmos, saying life evolved elsewhere and somehow got here. That doesn't...
May 25, 2022 at 11:33
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I don't know what any of that means!!!
May 25, 2022 at 11:03
The term "theory" in science is different from everday use. The title of this thread uses the everyday meaning of the word theory; as in "it's just a ...
May 25, 2022 at 08:05
A woman's right to choose is not related - in my mind, to political correctness. It's more fundamental than that. It's about freeing women from the im...
February 07, 2022 at 07:28
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much ca...
February 06, 2022 at 16:19
Your desperate need to be validated stands in the way of learning something - or failing that, at least providing a service by being there for me to b...
February 06, 2022 at 16:07
Yes.
February 06, 2022 at 08:20
There wasn't an explicit racist motive in Communist genocides, however in the 1920s the policy of korenization (nativization) promoted national minori...
February 06, 2022 at 07:30
Said Pussy to Owl, "You elegant fowl! How charmingly sweet you sing! O let us be married! too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?" ...
February 06, 2022 at 06:55
Sadly, it's not. In Russia, Communists killed somewhere between 20 and 60 million people, and in China, around 50 million people. My worry is that cen...
February 06, 2022 at 06:25
No. I don't think so. I think she's wrong - but so what? Asking her to explain her opinion, and debating the question is potentially a learning experi...
February 05, 2022 at 20:28
Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there! He wasn't there again today, Oh how I wish he'd go away!
February 05, 2022 at 13:13
Is this a roundabout way of saying "climate is always changing"? While nominally true, it's a climate denialist meme, that given any amount of thought...
February 05, 2022 at 13:03
I give respect where it's due. If 'green commie' seems disrespectful, that's because it is. Since the 1960's the left have campaigned on environmental...
February 05, 2022 at 05:48
Direct contradiction is not an argument. I can only refer you to the answer I gave above.
February 05, 2022 at 05:24
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February 05, 2022 at 05:13
I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean, but I suggested - to various politicians and media outlets at COP26, developing magma energy as a gl...
February 03, 2022 at 17:35
How did you notice when you've not engaged with anything I've written? ...but keep insisting on de-population - while still pumping oil. If you do not...
February 03, 2022 at 06:26
Most magma is beyond reach, but there are what NASA calls 'crustal magma bodies' - and I call magma chambers, within 1-2km of the surface. The deepest...
February 02, 2022 at 13:47
Most geothermal energy today is hydrothermal - tapping into underground bodies of hot water. It is not the same as magma energy. The significant passa...
February 02, 2022 at 09:54
Astonishingly, you managed to reply without mentioning me, or anything I'd said. Without this... I would not have known this was a response to my post...
February 01, 2022 at 15:16
Most geothermal energy today is hydrothermal - tapping into underground bodies of hot water. It is not the same as magma energy. The significant passa...
February 01, 2022 at 04:36
If I do not use the term 'green commie' to describe the environmental movement since the 1960's - I'm unfortunately left with stupidity as an explanat...
February 01, 2022 at 04:14
an amoeba says what?
February 01, 2022 at 03:19
I'm inclined to think life exists everywhere it can exist - but intelligent life? Maybe that's relatively rare; but even then, I don't believe we are ...
January 31, 2022 at 19:37
I somehow missed your post. Sorry about that; and about name calling. It was merely shorthand; I was not intending to insult anyone. I would agree tha...
January 31, 2022 at 19:22
That's what the universe was before the big bang!
January 31, 2022 at 18:42
I'm not sure actual infinity is necessary to the same physics acting upon the same chemistry, to produce similar biology. Only similar conditions that...
January 31, 2022 at 18:34
To be fair, that should be your every reply! I don't know if the universe is actually infinite - but it might be, and so everything that can occur, do...
January 31, 2022 at 18:10
The physics and chemistry of the universe gave rise to biology, and eventually intelligent life. It's inevitable, therefore - there are other intellig...
January 31, 2022 at 10:24
That's a false value. The aim is 'sustainable in the foreseeable future' - not unlimited. That said, with the possible exception of helium, I don't se...
January 30, 2022 at 16:18
Please do: here's a link: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987STIN...8820719D/abstract Perhaps you'll have better luck advertising it than I - I'm n...
January 30, 2022 at 15:48
First, we need to make a distinction between the geothermal energy Iceland have developed, and magma energy. They are not the same. Iceland's deepest ...
January 30, 2022 at 15:32
Fair point given the history of coal, oil and gas production, but NASA researched magma energy from the mid 1970's to late 1980's - and concluded it w...
January 30, 2022 at 11:47