If members of an intelligence committee are briefed with secret material, they cannot talk about it. Yet it's the action that counts. That is what mat...
Why should they tolerate them? As an European, I made the point how in Europe statues from a very painful past of a totalitarian dictatorship have bee...
I don't think we have seen any culmination here. Let's remember that even if similar uproar was in the universities in the sixties and seventies, this...
Well, that is typical leftist rhetoric. Just like the rhetoric of marxists taking over the Democratic Party/the DNC is common at the right. One has to...
Lol. Well, something being simply ugly is a bit different! https://images.cdn.yle.fi/image/upload//w_1198,h_785,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto:eco/13-3-966709...
Perhaps the letter should be examined a bit: The fear basically is that fire is fought with equal fire, that the resistance "hardens into its own bran...
What's the problem with statue cemetaries I say? Well, we don't worship statues and we don't adore those who have statues made of them. As a person wh...
Because it doesn't exist. Never heard of the proletarian dictatorship? You don't have to be a Friedrich Hayek to understand that the dictatorship of t...
And why were they tolerated before and not anymore? I think one mass shooting doesn't answer everything here. Why are there even now, in the halls of ...
The US has a problem in adopting social programs as they are seen as outright socialism and the preference is that various voluntary organizations giv...
Taking down statues means that you have something so traumatic in your history that you cannot face it otherwise and cannot accept it being a part of ...
I'm not. Remember that they still are a rather small export oriented country and all it takes is the global economy to get a mild flew and Sweden (jus...
People usually have some point in what they are saying. Often they describe well certain a problem. Yet especially with what they give then to be the ...
I think we can conclude now that Sweden's policy was a failure. Sweden isn't anywhere close of herd immunity. Yet it should be noted that one third of...
Maga. Wasn't that above what the people who voted for Trump wanted? Didn't they want to "drain the swamp"? Didn't they want to believe in all of that?...
This is actually a bigger problem than we often think. You see, part of "struggle" in the "culture war" is to redefine terms like "marxist", "nazi" or...
Add things mentioned here alreadt: de-escalatory tactics, use of other officials than just the police in every occasion, a wide variety of methods tha...
Oh, I'm one of those conservatives who believe in representative democracy, even with it's failures and defects, and believe that changes can happen t...
When people refer to Maoist or Marxist or Nazi or whatever, they should really have the actual meaning of the word and use it as a pejorative adjectiv...
This is an interesting question and a bit different topic, so I reply to this separately. Yes, economics has desired to become a "hard science" with u...
First of all, being rational makes the case that we try to maximize our utility, whatever that is, which then gives of the ability to use mathematics ...
Firstly, they already own the World. Tell me the time when they or their predecessors didn't own it. You and your companions, ordinary citizens, might...
How would you define a subjective truth? Something that is true for me, like I am at my countryside home in Finland and it's raining outside and that'...
Trump already has said the whole thing is a hoax. Fake news, never happened. End of story. And, btw, both Russia and the Taleban have denied it. So I ...
Well, my point was that the consensus that people have in things like "something has to be done to police brutality" is obviously important was respon...
Yes, you can see the change in the attitudes in the use of chemical fertilizers from from the 1950's and 1960's as then what was overlooked was the im...
Just to recap, here's in a nutshell a good clip on just what is the problem with policing in the US compared to other countries from CBS news. Many of...
I'll try to explain again. 1) You can make write whatever kind of response here on PF, right? There is no limitations on what you can write. (The admi...
Before Eisenhower? Weren't Democrats the one's that came up with the great idea of the Confederacy? Or how about quotes from Democrat President Woodro...
Obviously it's so when studying consciousness. Yet Ernst Nagel was a logical positivist, hence he as a philosopher that knew his math & logic. He did ...
Sure, but it's easier than defining consciousness and what is conscious and what isn't. Doctors have some kind of definition that they apply on the is...
I do remember reading this paper on how ready various countries are to face a pandemic (done some years ago) and it basically gave the highest marks f...
Well, Russell himself use Type Theory and basically Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory (ZF) was made basically to avoid Russell's paradox. If you find your i...
Wow. Well, he's right on that thing. Because it is genuinely a problem about subjectivity and objectivity. Or to put it another way: the limitations o...
No, just the basic mathematics in Turings answer on the Entscheidungsproblem with his Turing Machine argument. Above was talking about mathematical co...
BLM can be great way to vent the anger into something useful...assuming something would be done. I just think things likely won't go well. Just rememb...
Which is shown with the gini coefficient or the gini index, as I stated. And the real question is, when has this income inequality gone down? It has y...
But isn't the real question here, that in some certain cases there is no way for us to prove / compute if a conjecture is either true or false? Wasn't...
Fascism is just a swear word these days. Remember the "Islamofascists" of the Dubya years. If you like this time, how much worse would it have to get ...
Why don't we do that: Here's statistics from the last economic downturn, the so-called Great Recession / Financial Crisis: https://upload.wikimedia.or...
Yes. But this is the way the current discourse goes in the "culture war". Nobody cares to actually read what others are saying, but try to look at how...
The worst ecological catastrophes happen in the poorest countries. For example Jared Diamond has written extensively very readable books about this. P...
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