According to a poll, 44% of Democrats wants somebody else than Joe Biden to run in the next Presidential elections. That's somber news for Joe. Then f...
Would have loved to read Zeno's book. After all, now we read the story from the writings of those who opposed the ideas, even if (hopefully) treated t...
Even if intelligence services do have active measures and are active in "information warfare", the popularity and mind set of conspiracy theorists are...
Of course there are the definitions found in any dictionary that show what is meant by the words. But that isn't what makes conspiracy theories so int...
Well, they were not so incompetent to lose the elections. Which likely they can thank the opposition. If someone can be gloomy it is Tony Blair and th...
Oh, you think that Americans could talk about the Democrats and Republicans together as an entity? Hah! Hard for others too. You underestimate how suc...
It's more that people are taught to look at the future negatively and critically. Being optimistic sounds too much as being care free and not being wo...
Indeed. And if it is an international program with many countries participating, it will take a lot of bureaucracy also. For example, the ITER-project...
Oh yes, the horror, the horror... :razz: And how will the future generations do in America with the US? I think there is an obvious difference in what...
I remember from my childhood what kind of bullshit propaganda was fed to us as children by the "progressive" environmentalists. My educative parents b...
It's not the politicians who are making the difference. And not those apocalyptic whiners or those that the media has lifted on a pedestal to preach a...
Well Bitter, I think you are the age that remembers the 1970's quite well. A lot has changed in the World since the 1970's, so a lot can change also i...
When interviewed in MSNBC, a D.C. Policeman Michael Fanone said it well: "I don't believe Donald Trump was responsible for bringing us to where we are...
One key issue in Christianity is that it was adopted by an existing Empire, finally accepted by the ruling class. I think this is the reason why just ...
Finger pointing doesn't work. It only irritates people. The blame game is simply stupid. Far more important is a) change in energy policy and b) inves...
? In reality total emissions matter, not per capita emissions. In fact having lower per capita missions means basically that these countries are even ...
Apart from the postmodern nonsense, I think those objectives still are present in philosophy. And I should note, even if I'm not an expert on the fiel...
Dangerous Knowledge. https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/9/4/0/7/1/94071-dangerous-knowledge-0-230-0-345-crop.jpg?k=d0239862be I know. A lot will...
Ah! Well, with more prosperity, India could truly modernize it's infrastructure. India is the third largest consumer of electricity and about 80% of i...
Exactly, and far more useful for us than only being objective. Add to this that things are very complex in reality. You can have good intentions while...
Unfortunately the thing is that we have to face and answer questions on how things ought to be (as many times not deciding is one fateful decision). T...
And what has been the reason why people aren't dying of famines in China anymore and why they are miles apart? Economic growth. I wouldn't say that. I...
Why, you think moral questions are easy and self-evident? Or that what you or I think are obviously the correct answers? Or just you? Ok. So an easy u...
Nice way to say this very important aspect. Yet do notice the huge political implications: modern agriculture is simply industrialized agriculture. It...
Did I understand you correctly that you argue that the sustainability of human ecology is the objective basis for morals, what is right or wrong? That...
You might be on to something here. I think it is socially important to have those 'natural grounds' to moral norms that you talk about. Even philosoph...
Metaphysics is beyond our reach. Yet metaphysics isn't totally unimportant. And so aren't the things that are subjective to us. What is good and what ...
It's not only the atheists. Simply Western democracies who want to uphold freedom of religion and be multicultural (in the positive way) don't simply ...
Ah, everything is happening because of the two-party system. Actually, the two party situation and that one party can have it all, both the Presidency...
In a way Brexit has just showed the consequences of a globalized economy then made to de-globalize. The effects are easy to see...in hindsight. The ro...
Origins do have an important role, even if people are unconscious about them. I would agree that for example there isn't the societal role for the chu...
For many people who aren't basically religious, the foundations of what is right and wrong have come from religion, christianity, islam etc. Not from ...
And that's why we talk about is as an issue of faith. If it would all be logical and provable, it wouldn't be a religion, an issue of faith. We would ...
The simulation is surely part of reality, just are the glasses that people wear. We surely can understand when looking at the world through glasses or...
The real issue is that the poison of aggressive populism has taken over one major party with the extremists in control. That actually isn't going to g...
How about following the stupidity? The US can in it's foreign and security policy follow illogical, contradictory and unrealistic policies and create ...
Trump made the mess even worse, yes, but the problem for the US is larger than just Trump. The political system in the US is making things worse and t...
What else could the allies do when the US decides on behalf of them? They could only scramble some troops to assist the US with the debacle. Even my p...
Exactly. Yet the Russian have a specific agenda: the objective is to increase the distrust Americans have on their government. And have NATO go the wa...
One thing for media to criticize foreign governments, another thing for governments of other countries to weigh in. There is a reason that we do have ...
If Trump really wins the elections fair and square, then nothing. Take him as the President of the United States and simply try to deal with him like ...
Sorry, actually it was. Trump abandoned the Afghan allies by making a peace deal with the Taliban without any thought given to the Afghan government. ...
In my view there is no dilemma. The US made a peace deal with the Taliban. The Taliban held their side of the agreement (not to attack US forces...but...
Comment to the OP. I think someone wrote that Wittgenstein didn't understand basically Turing's example (the Turing Machine) and Turing failed to desc...
And why would they be? The US was fighting a fucking war in Afghanistan. Collateral damage happens when the only things you have is remote footage fro...
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