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You're right, it's possible that I may have googled that phrase at some time in the past. Still, the larger point remains. Anyone who thinks Judith Mi...

LOL. I'm happy to hear from people who take the time to understand what I'm saying. Someone responded to my point about Judith Miller by claiming that...

Thanks, I added a couple of more paragraphs. I'm a liberal in despair at what's become of liberalism. Those two debates this week have got me in an aw...

Deeply misreading me. My point is that fake news is used these days to label what I would call alternative news, any questioning of the mainstream nar...

Identity is deeper than bijection. There's a bijection but not identity between {1,2,3} and {a, b, c,}.

I remember it the other way 'round. The left started the term fake news with that bogus PropOrNot article in the Washington Post, which had to be retr...

OMG my mentions are really piling up. What actually happens is that every time I write anything on the politics forums the replies depress me terribly...

I Googled "Judith Miller lies. Iinterestingly, when I Googled "Judith Miller," Google autocompleted "lies" as the first suggestion. I was going to sta...

Ok! In the meantime I just read through your first reply and I believe I can respond concisely and beneficially to it. Let me get to that. It might ta...

OMG am I three posts behind already? And you know me, I sometimes reply at length to every paragraph. I'm overwhelmed again. Just remembering back, my...

Definitional question. In 2002 the NYT ran stories by Judith Miller alleging that Saddam Hussein was acquiring yellowcake uranium and aluminum tubes f...

Later in life his wife took up with another man, leading the neighbors to gossip about Pascal's triangle.

Ok! And I'm so glad you responded. I come to this forum to discuss math, and when there's no interesting math content going on I go over and get in tr...

This is something from a while back, I no longer remember exactly what I might have said and I didn't manage to find my earlier quote. I didn't follow...

I'm perfectly well aware. I said the other day I favored Obama's Iran treaty. In my opinion a bad nuke deal is better than no nuke deal. Trump was 100...

As you can probably verify from the timestamps, I did. In fact I speculated that he'd probably "bomb a couple of oil refineries," which is probably wh...

Today Trump said that he believes some rogue Iranian general made a mistake or did something stupid in shooting down the drone. It seems to me that th...

The mathematics of biology involves a lot of differential equations, which are equations that show exactly how something changes over time. Perhaps yo...

I've been meaning to reply to this. I can't possibly respond technically on all you've written. You've outlined a research program that I may return t...

If one doesn't regard an increased probability of a disastrous war with Iran as sad; one might be putting their politics ahead of their humanity. Was ...

This post so perfectly exemplifies the point I'm making that I have nothing at all to add. Except that claiming I characterized "anyone critical about...

I had a little insight. I read another Awodey paper, Structuralism, Invariance, and Univalence and it snapped everything into focus. UA is the stateme...

I'll read it, thanks. I do actually recognize what is meant by cultural appropriation in the context of disrespect and ignorance. I don't really think...

LOL You guys will never give up. That Putin nonsense was invented on the night of the election by Robby Mook and John Podesta to deflect attention fro...

This is why we can't have funny comedians anymore.

Didn't Hillary pay for oppo research written by a former member of British intelligence who got his (fictitious) information from Russian sources? I w...

You seem emotionally invested in the topic. What most of us hear about the subject is college kids who demand that sushi be banned from campus menus, ...

If John Bolton gets his way, yes. It's sad that Trump spoke so insightfully in 2016 against the endless, mindless semi-covert wars, and has now put ne...

You're right. I'll stop eating burritos now.

I think there's a step missing. The world is out there and I can use my body to affect it. But how did my mind affect my body? Searle makes this point...

Ah, group representations on steroids. I understand at least by analogy. The ncatlab link you provided was extremely helpful, thanks. Also the Wiki ar...

LOL Now I don't feel so bad about my own ignorance of weighty matters! Re the functor that cranks out groups ... I recalled and just looked up the fac...

Are you arguing against infinity in math? Or just in the world? It's perfectly clear that we all have a intuition of the natural numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4...

I understood pretty much everything you wrote. I know what a group object is (as of this morning) by looking it up in Awodey's most excellent book on ...

As George Carlin said, you can prick your finger, but you can't finger your prick.

Ok I can't comment on type theory at all because I'm totally ignorant in that area. But I'm a little confused by this paragraph. I would have thought ...

God doesn't have Moosehead Ale, eh?

You have a link in support of your ideas? They are very strange. I don't want to flat out say they're wrong, since my ignorance is vast. But I know a ...

Jeez that's not true. A volatile variable is one that is, for example, mapped to an external data source. Declaring a variable volatile tells the comp...

Is the UA intended to apply to standard set theory? In other words in the category of sets, a morphism is a bijection. If isomorphism is identity, the...

Having already admitted the existence of uncountably many line segments, you can take their union in one application of the axiom of union to join the...

LOL. Already debunked. The "Philosophy forum" is a hotbed of fake news when you are around. Just how gullible are you, anyway? North Korea execution r...

A very reasoned and reasonable analysis. I can't disagree with anything, nor could I frame a response at that level of stylish erudition. And yet ... ...

It's interesting that at least two people responded by saying this might make his extradition less likely. There are glass-half-full types around here...

My cat did it.

Don't worry. Read some Berkeley then you won't even believe your senses. Your senses are the only evidence you have that there's anything out there in...

Assange has been formally charged in the US with espionage, which can carry the death penalty. Does this change anyone's opinion? Do you think journal...

Oh no now I am falling even further behind in my replies! Yes but by the 19th century it became clear that the logical problems of calculus were becom...

You have a cat? Mine sometimes walks on my keyboard and writes half the stuff I post here. So you didn't write that? Ok.

Never better, thanks. @Wayfarer wrote a post that models the direct opposite of the "Orange man bad" school of political discourse. He didn't say, "Oo...