Where's your proof? :rofl: You know that's not even an argument don't you. But you repeat it as if it is a strong point. Even if you were right and I ...
Dude I am 72 with epilepsy and a bad back. Only the Russian army would have me. I suggest We kick the US out of NATO for threatening to invade a fello...
No one has said either of those things except you. Obviously, (except to you apparently), appeasement is not peace, but surrender. And equally obvious...
But one might argue that when the robbers and rapists are in your house, then peace is indeed unacceptable. I remember a peace-loving reverend was pla...
It looks to me as the choice for the US is between fascism and civil war. Either will produce a big decline in global influence and possibly economic ...
:100: This, on the other hand, is excellent evidence of someone who does know what they are talking about. And therefore it is ignored. Those interest...
A momentary irritation on my part with reading a thread mired in confusion. I'm not really a great burner of books, or even threads. For instance, cau...
I wish I could burn this thread. Imagine all the smartypantsonfire! Would y'all be offended? violated? the great god Ego desecrated? Perhaps some mode...
This is certainly the heart of the challenges that we face. And this site faces, for example here. But the threat to decency and wisdom is at every le...
As I sip a glass of wine, I am conscious of the cool yet warming liquid, the taste unfolding, the memories of youth spent at the grape harvest, and th...
I agree. A similar thing happened with the invention of the printing press, which played a major role in a Europe wide witch hunt over the course of t...
It does, but not in the way you think. Rather, the institutions, academic and governmental, downplay and even outright reject the more pessimistic pap...
I cannot let this piece of elitist capitalist ideology stand unchallenged. :wink: Home is where the heart is. You may have your heart in your wallet, ...
If I had been moderating, I would have deleted and warned @"Mikie" too, several times. I might even have deleted some of my own posts. If you are tryi...
Yes. That seems to indicate that at least one of us making the thread uninteresting to others. But @"Mikie" also posts. I think he mostly ignores @"Ag...
I make the decision for myself, and I express it with evidence in support. The site owner and the volunteer moderators are the ones entitled to make t...
And here is some more detail. This is a bit long, sorry. But worth your time, I think. The comparison with the decline of the British Empire is partic...
Whereas my suggestion is precisely the opposite, to prevent the expression of nonsense and rubbish, and ban people who persist in so doing. I guess it...
Is it an ideology that the mods are in charge? Is the rule an ideology? shall we debate forever the terms of the debate? I think any debate needs some...
Limits to growth came up in the climate change thread recently. Here is the US trying to overshoot the limits as described some math dude trying to re...
I would prefer that we have certain standards, such that we do not discuss creationism, flat earth, climate change denial, normalisation of pedophilia...
I think I remember the handle, it was a long time back - on the old site? There are plenty of worse places to go, but if you can't find meaning in lif...
When the hand touches the hot stove, The arm pulls it away before The head knows anything about it. The brain is like the government, pretending it is...
There ought to be a special section for retired staff to complain about how things have gone downhill, and there are no proper discussions any more, a...
On the less bright side, discussing the thread and its bright and dull sides is entirely off topic, as is most of the discussion that goes on in the t...
It would allow you to understand their conflict better. I wouldn't suggest that you read the whole damn thread, but even a skim of the last 5 pages wo...
One way you could improve the situation is by developing a better understanding of the issues. Plastic pollution is a serious environmental problem, b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine This is a complaint. But probably belongs in political philosophy or some other nether realm than mer...
Further to my earlier mention of the difficulty of having an intuitive understanding of exponential functions. Here is a good explanation of the natur...
Here is some bad news that is not, as far as I know, directly connected to climate change, but certainly adds to the degradation of the environment an...
Just so! And there are but 2 ways for humans to adapt to climate change. 1. Stop using fossil fuels that are increasing climate change and take other ...
It's possible, but rather unlikely. In order for that to happen, the sea ice would have to extend a long way beyond where it has been in historical ti...
I heard this explanation somewhere, but cannot give the due credit. "When one is on an exponential curve and one looks to the past, the curve looks al...
(my bold) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/gaya-herrington-mit-study-the-limits-to-growth Thus the article the the experts at lad b...
There's not much physics in that, more politics and economics. But there is little I disagree with as to the facts of human social behaviour. And I li...
(my bold) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2025.2434494#d1e1581 I really recommend this paper; it brings together solar cycles, t...
And lads write the Bible. "And the morning and the evening were the eighth day." So present 2024 data align with the 1972 "worst-case scenario". That ...
Speaking of exhausts... When I was a kid, we used to watch the London to Brighton race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHM4BPCpklY We always laughed ...
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