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When does a beautiful girl stop being beautiful and become 'OK looking' or 'ordinary' or even be outright 'ugly'? If you cannot draw a specific line, ...

Let's first give a definition to incommensurability: So your correlation 2 goes totally against the definition and I'm not exactly sure what you mean ...

Taking Colin Kaepernick to be the face of Nike was the 'controversial' trick that you refer to. That was indeed intensional: that made Nike look good,...

:grin: Well, bloopers are funny. Just like this one from Older Bush admitting he had sex with President Ronald Reagan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

The only thing would be if he would appease the Democrats and that would create perhaps a backbone for opposition of Trump in the GOP. What is really ...

I think one of the reasons why the Sorites Paradox is important and comes up so frequently isn't not only that we have a problem with vagueness. It's ...

Reading of a teleprompter is so difficult. How could we assume the President of the United States to be able to clearly read out from a teleprompter a...

Yes, obviously in the category of Maw answers: "I don't care at all about this… but I'll still actively participate in this thread."

I believe that when you are actually in Rome surrounded by Romans. Yet even there it doesn't mean you change totally what you think and become a diffe...

Could be? Seems that all it takes is a hypothetical community for you not to answer what you yourself think about it. Was so intimate? So from your I ...

Is it? You see it's also easy to 'understand' why people would fall for communism or fascism or whatever. It's a different matter to agree with the id...

I would there's a lot of philosophy, especially the philosophy of computer/video games themselves, in the The Stanley Parable. A nice intelligent game...

Quite unlikely. The obvious answer is Nike just trying to manage a somewhat surprising situation in the best possible way. The idea that they 'planned...

I was thinking about the local papers here, but this of course is quite universal. It depends just what kind of discourse the paper / media wants, whi...

Something being useful is a good start. I think that pragmatism would a good philosophical school. I wonder why Americans aren't so much into it, even...

From the Finnish Constitution: Basically all males between 18 and 60 years are in the reserve, meaning that they are liable to military service. Hence...

Because, well, even now public discourse doesn't involve billions, just millions. And that is the way to dumb it down. I still see in some newspapers ...

And this actually tells just how ludicrous the whole issue is when you think of it. I say it's about the dumbing down of the public discourse.

I genuinely feel safer that the vast majority of adult males in my country do know how to use an assault rifle, aim the rifle by using the sights and ...

And if something is co-opted, the worst thing is to then to decline the use of the symbol because "someone ignorant might misunderstand the use". This...

Yes, corporations obviously make money by asking retailers to pull off their new item that have just arrived to stores. Doesn't the Betsy Ross flag sy...

Political correctness is a rabbit hole from which especially large corporations cannot get out of once they have engaged in the PC discourse and taken...

Yep. Or basically what we talk is about a bijection. Or set theory. No. Something being basically logic, on a "lower level" as Fishfry said to modelin...

Two of my three best teachers ever were teachers of Religion, as we do have state religion in our country. Both were Lutheran priests also (and men, s...

Social workers taking care of elder people. That's the new reality. We are still ages away from AI cyborgs doing all that stuff. Especially when older...

And this is why I don't believe in Post-Modernism. It's criticized from both left and right. It simply is bullshit. Besides, false propaganda has exis...

Having been through the Finnish system (to a Masters degree in the University) and having my own children in the system (my daughter starts next fall ...

Hi, I was in the some time at 1st grade and the 2nd grade in Elementary School in the US (public school, View Ridge) in Seattle in the early 1980's an...

The Red Sea, The Persian Gulf and the Straight of Hormuz aren't wide spaces. An Aircraft carrier on the Red Sea is like in a bathtub. Not much is insi...

I think the real threat is more likely the age old enemy that simply is forgotten: mines and the diesel submarine. During the Falklands war Argentine ...

Does Iran have the S-400? What I know is that a few batteries of S-300PMU2's were sold there, and it has some modern Tor mobile SAM launchers. Other s...

But notice the other side of what it means to have political consensus: it means that the social democrats go just fine with the implementation of rig...

Anyway, the way now Trump has managed the narrative is beneficial to him. His hardcore supporters don't like the neocons and so the story that everybo...

Air Defence needs coordination and integration right from the start. It has to detect an incoming strike, it has to coordinate it's own actions with y...

Fdrake already answered this, but if bijections, injections and surjections aren't familiar to you, here's a one way to look at it: Take the 1. line: ...

Yet competence is a factor that has to be taken into consideration. We (as armchair generals) tend to look just at the performance charts of these sys...

Fishfry is suffering from Reverse Trump Derangement Syndrome.

If we think the only time when Trump did fire the cruise missiles, while eating a lovely chocolate cake with the Chinese leader, the strike had all ov...

Let's discuss this in detail, if you are interested. First the S-300/S-400 systems are technically very challenging to operate. You have to have able ...

Being a citizen of let's say Afghanistan or Somalia doesn't get much respect. But you are treated as an Afghan and that is a thing. Being an Afghan mi...

Hmm, I wonder what systems you find lacking ethical standards. :wink: Isn't that part of his job? The most famous KGB chief in Finland, general Victor...

The difference simply is that you cannot count them (duh!), no possibility of putting them in a proper order and hence get the 1-to-1 mapping to natur...

Actually, the US has already tested the S-300 system, not to the S-400 Triumph and many allies and friendly countries to the US have the system, like ...

The Norwegian Pension Fund system compromises of two wealth funds. :roll: So just why then they decided NOT TO invest the larger funds money into the ...

The likelihood to live now...compared to living in history or in the future is very low. Now if we assume humans have been around for 100 000 years, i...

I think so. I think dialogue is mutually beneficial, because it's not a game of winning or losing. Excesses and thoughtlessness basically limit the di...

Well, the Soviet Union did lead the space-race and was close even to getting a man to the moon first, if it wasn't for an enthusiastic German called W...

Even if the term "duopoly" would fit the two-party system well, it has to be argued that the two ruling parties do have a stranglehold over the politi...

Every mathematical object has a proper model of itself.... basically itself. So basically (not rigorously) it means that R=R

Seems you didn't get what I was actually saying at all, just gave what indeed are the typical remarks made of "the excesses". And I responded to Terra...