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The problem is that the federal Government unilaterally decided to have the wave of meetings across the nation and is already making (some) plans and ...
July 29, 2018 at 00:22
The same is true in Canada, but systemic failure to provide equitable education even in recent decades has meant that on reserve students are massivel...
July 29, 2018 at 00:11
Most likely according to heritage, historical treaties and land agreements, and need, but it is not yet clear exactly what will happen and how it will...
July 28, 2018 at 23:09
The right to freedom of speech most intelligibly means "freedom from censorship". Anyone can lie, but what matters from a moral perspective is whether...
July 26, 2018 at 17:06
This is a false dilemma/dichotomy incarnate. You're saying it can only ever be a choice between two relevant options but it's entirely possible that a...
July 25, 2018 at 22:32
Which is why they should start voting third party instead!
July 25, 2018 at 22:21
Since American's are able to vote for third and fourth parties (albeit indirectly in many states), they actually can cast their ballots in support of ...
July 25, 2018 at 22:18
It was a false dichotomy; the notion that we're stuck with only one of two possible options.
July 25, 2018 at 22:06
Why not take the unstated third option and say you don't support systematic persecution?
July 25, 2018 at 21:57
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1021909900941815809 Trump doing a 180 on the value of tariffs? EDIT: yep https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrum...
July 25, 2018 at 21:41
It's really worth watching if you can get your hands on it. "Painfully funny" is an understatement.
July 25, 2018 at 18:23
Let me rephrase the question: Do you support persecution based on ethnicity or persecution based on political belief?
July 25, 2018 at 18:22
I wouldn't say it has "nothing" to do with it. Sexual attraction won't progress further without some sort of sexual compatibility. The fact that males...
July 25, 2018 at 16:53
There is no debate; the jury came in ages ago: the fact that the human anus is capable of being pleasurably stimulated (in both males and females) hea...
July 25, 2018 at 16:27
Do you support National Socialism or Communism? If you don't pick one of these sides, you're just uninformed? Just because one of two piles of excreme...
July 25, 2018 at 16:18
Overspending by 10% is a big deal given how close the referendum was. What seemed to me an even bigger scandal was that infamous lie on the Brexit bus...
July 25, 2018 at 15:55
Probably for the best wouldn't you say? Something tells me the state of Georgia can do better... It's really not so much worse than a reality T.V star...
July 25, 2018 at 15:22
Some video games blur the line between consumption and creation. As interactive art forms they can be of immensely high quality and serve many functio...
July 24, 2018 at 22:43
I love the auto-save feature. There's also a "drafts" section in which I have pages upon pages of un-sumbitted and half-complete posts (or posts I tho...
July 24, 2018 at 20:10
Many of his recent victims are taking to the news and social media to defend themselves. Corinne "adopt-a-child-soldier" Olympios said she was thoroug...
July 24, 2018 at 19:11
Actually yes it is. Here's a skit where as his aspiring artist ex-convict character, he manages to convince an upscale Californian art dealer to take ...
July 24, 2018 at 17:45
Good question. I'm fairly certain that the statements Sacha is able to tease out of his victims do on many levels reflect their genuine attitudes/beli...
July 23, 2018 at 16:27
Photons that the eyes gather are turned into electrical and chemical signals that the brain then interprets. The data within the light that the eye ga...
July 21, 2018 at 06:10
One criterion for strong testimonial evidence is corroboration. If multiple people testify to witnessing an event then the claims corroborated by the ...
July 21, 2018 at 05:17
Our point of view is "located within the eyes" because that's where the light stimulus is gathered from. Analogously, when we're viewing a monitor of ...
July 21, 2018 at 05:02
Because it's intentional belief altering via coercive/irrational means. Is deception the intent to conceal or manipulate or is it the successful conce...
July 20, 2018 at 05:34
Prohibition can be a persuasive salesman...
July 20, 2018 at 05:17
It occurs to me that we can very easily and in the true sense of the phrase 'lie to ourselves' if we're content with deceiving our future-selves rathe...
July 20, 2018 at 05:04
He's a bit of a limp biscuit but at least he has interesting guests from time to time (though he would never dare to ask a confrontational question). ...
July 19, 2018 at 00:38
Just to clarify I'm not exactly advocating for erecting a "TPF Academy for Members Who Cant Post Good And Want To Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too", b...
July 18, 2018 at 04:05
I was hoping that this section could be omitted from the all discussions section/home page somehow. I realize now such a feature is not available, as ...
July 18, 2018 at 03:51
There's nothing new under the digital sun I guess... As I was not privy to the original discussion, could you share any information about its conclusi...
July 17, 2018 at 23:11
Cats are well known as utterly scrupulous and frugal accountants. Although if you're not careful, they'll deftly bury their own toxic assets in your l...
July 17, 2018 at 23:05
Without - some - socialism we would have laissez-faire capitalism, which is a strategy few of us would find desirable. Is that the rate of taxation wh...
July 17, 2018 at 21:05
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July 17, 2018 at 05:56
If Russia is indeed an enemy of the United States (is an "Enemy" well defined in this context?) then could any of Trumps statements or actions be cons...
July 16, 2018 at 22:28
Thanks! :heart: Trump can take away our security, our confidence, and our dignity, but I'll be damned if he taints the elegance of the english languag...
July 16, 2018 at 22:18
By 2020 he'll be so.... So.... Old... And tired... So tired... Even if the economy soars he would still need another miracle in my estimation (Hillary...
July 16, 2018 at 20:53
The pee-pee tape is seeming more and more plausible everyday.
July 16, 2018 at 20:10
Brain damage in various places can have corresponding effects on conscious experience and mental faculties. The taking of drugs for instance interacts...
July 16, 2018 at 17:38
I watched the first episode, and while at times I felt like gouging my eyes and ears out of sympathetic embarrassment, it's painfully amusing. And yes...
July 16, 2018 at 16:52
Not just complicated; complex! Sure we don't feel like an amalgam of streaming information exchanges among and between learning neural networks, but t...
July 16, 2018 at 16:34
Sacha is one of the very best performance artists of our time. I can't wait for the full feature! :up: FIRE!!! EDIT: I see it's actually a series, and...
July 15, 2018 at 21:03
How familiar are you with the science of machine learning? (And welcome to TPF!) The question you've asked is a big'un; it spans the history of evolut...
July 15, 2018 at 20:58
Trump will only resign if he can feel like he can go down a winner. He never believed he could win and almost certainly never wanted to be president, ...
July 15, 2018 at 20:21
I think we deceive ourselves all the time. Lately I've been conceiving "consciousness" as a kind of conglomerate or patch-work that is made up of many...
July 15, 2018 at 20:09
There's no star-spangled guarentee that logic will continue to yield "truth". It's a kind of brute fact that logic yields truth: inductive experience ...
July 14, 2018 at 19:26
My apologies for the lateness of my response, and I understand the need to condense our responses. I additional apologize for my inability to keep to ...
July 12, 2018 at 08:46
Demonstrating that average person in the contemporary west is better off (note that "better off" means something different than "better") than average...
July 08, 2018 at 08:04
Population control! The bigger our population grows, the more stresses of scale are placed on the population. We're so dependent on steady food, energ...
July 07, 2018 at 12:06