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In: Brexit  — view comment
I think you mean the opposite. He's also been accused of a failure of political correctness towards women and a tendency to bullying. His popularity w...
September 09, 2019 at 15:42
In: Brexit  — view comment
My understanding is that 2 things have happened to these people. The whip has been withdrawn, which means they are no longer part of the parliamentary...
September 09, 2019 at 10:27
Indeed, but giving it another name does not give it a justification. Do you think you have done that? Or that someone else has?
September 09, 2019 at 10:08
Is this really a thing? Who's better at weather forecasting, the president or the weather forecasters? And my dad could beat your dad at tiddlywinks! ...
September 08, 2019 at 15:16
Or as we call it these days "conditioning.' Pavlov's dog does not reason, but becomes accustomed habitually to expect food on hearing a bell. It is th...
September 08, 2019 at 10:27
In: Brexit  — view comment
Well never mind the trolls, never mind the great unwashed, I have very little idea what leaving with no deal means myself, and I am comparatively educ...
September 07, 2019 at 20:12
No it wouldn't. Entertainment is shit you don't give a shit about.
September 07, 2019 at 19:35
It means human existence - and existence in general - is unnecessary, merely decorative, an exuberant overflowing. Some do, but others play soccer (th...
September 07, 2019 at 13:51
No. life's too short and I withdraw my cooperation. work it out on your own, or not.
September 07, 2019 at 12:59
Oh come on, man! That's a power play itself, comparing me to fucking Stalin. A power mad ideologue says that he holds a view, and behaves in a totally...
September 07, 2019 at 12:46
"No it isn't", he says naively in an unreflective wielding of power. There! That's changed everything by sheer puissance and pouvoir! Except I suspect...
September 07, 2019 at 12:34
Politics is about power. That's why every alien demands to be taken to your leader. One talks to the organ-grinder not the monkey. Power is the fundam...
September 07, 2019 at 10:27
Nietzsche is probably close to the worst possible place to start philosophy. In the first place he is radically iconoclastic, but the icons he was cla...
September 07, 2019 at 10:11
In: Really  — view comment
I chose to quote this here, but did I really choose?
September 07, 2019 at 09:56
Yes indeed, that is my point. From the POV of the game-world character, the fact that the programmer needs a comfort break. or occasionally cannot wor...
September 07, 2019 at 09:50
He's running rings round them.
September 06, 2019 at 21:04
In: Brexit  — view comment
That was a devilishly good deadpan joke/putdown.
September 06, 2019 at 20:02
In: Brexit  — view comment
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/06/boris-and-donald-two-leaders-afraid-to-do-the-hard-work-of-running-a-country?CMP=fb_gu&utm_mediu...
September 06, 2019 at 14:23
In: Brexit  — view comment
I hope you are right.
September 06, 2019 at 10:59
In: Brexit  — view comment
Right. The legal opinion I saw must have been wrong or out of date. But there is still a conflict if the decision to leave must also be be decided fol...
September 06, 2019 at 10:41
In: Brexit  — view comment
Diversion, and taking some heat off the Boris Cummings faction. All that wasted effort. We are talking about it, and that is a win, because important ...
September 06, 2019 at 09:21
In: Brexit  — view comment
You may be right. But you may be wrong; it is at least possible to say that the Benn bill legally changes the democratic decision.
September 06, 2019 at 09:02
A programmer can create a level he cannot complete, and then a cheat that enables him to complete it. In relation to the game-world, the programmer is...
September 06, 2019 at 08:06
In: Brexit  — view comment
There is a clause in article 50 that says the decision to leave has to be made democratically according to the laws of the country, so It could be tha...
September 06, 2019 at 07:56
In: Brexit  — view comment
He is quite deliberately a parody of a victorian toff, just as Johnson is a deliberate parody of a buffoon. Such behaviour has the effect of normalisi...
September 05, 2019 at 12:45
In: Brexit  — view comment
And from our 'you couldn't make it up' correspondent... https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jo-johnson-boris-johnsons-brother-resigns-from-parliame...
September 05, 2019 at 11:07
In: Brexit  — view comment
Here's a happy fantasy: Brexit is delayed, then there is an election. the deal between Tory and Brexit parties collapses, splitting the brexit diehard...
September 05, 2019 at 09:40
The origin of neurosis is The Fall into time. Adamn monkey falls not into knowledge of good and evil as in 'bananas are good', but as 'I am good', 'ba...
September 04, 2019 at 18:54
One of the things society needs to wake up from is the myth of leaders. As if the person out front knows where they are going. No They are simply the ...
September 04, 2019 at 13:06
In: Brexit  — view comment
There are always too many servants, except when there are not enough.
September 04, 2019 at 10:09
You're leading the witness, but - from within, obviously. Yes. The one thing science cannot at all deal with is freedom. It just comes out as random i...
September 04, 2019 at 10:02
In: Brexit  — view comment
Let's go thither hither instead.
September 03, 2019 at 12:40
In: Brexit  — view comment
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2019/09/02/the-media-goes-into-attack-corbyn-mode-ahead-of-a-possible-snap-election-his-response-is-sublime/?fbclid=...
September 03, 2019 at 10:06
Big fleas have little fleas That feed on them and bite them, And little fleas yet smaller fleas, And so ad infinitum. The intuition preceded the mathe...
September 03, 2019 at 09:35
In: Brexit  — view comment
As has the press coverage in the UK. The reality though is that Corbyn is not remotely radical, and has not proposed a single policy that goes beyond ...
September 03, 2019 at 08:56
What we ought to do is to stop burying the dead and instead embalm them so that all the poor depraved living can have sex with corpses and satisfy the...
September 03, 2019 at 08:13
Well since I have been invoked like a common demon, here is my contribution: Tononi's hyper-scientific explanation of consciousness is here discussed ...
September 02, 2019 at 09:15
In: Brexit  — view comment
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2019/08/29/defence-minister-is-caught-on-camera-spilling-the-unspeakable-beans-about-boris-johnson/?fbclid=IwAR1K_X-...
September 01, 2019 at 20:50
In: Really  — view comment
Really appreciate that. It's not ideal, but what can one expect?
September 01, 2019 at 18:55
So are you saying that I cannot cut a cat into two pieces? Your idealism solves the problem of contradiction but at the price of failing to account fo...
September 01, 2019 at 16:54
I already shot that fox. If I have two shoes, they may or may not be a pair. It is not the same thing. And if I cut a cat in two, there are two pieces...
September 01, 2019 at 15:36
I have a left shoe, and I have a right shoe. I have two shoes. I have a pair of shoes. I have a pair of shoes, which consists of a left shoe, a right ...
September 01, 2019 at 12:02
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201304/the-most-basic-freedom-is-freedom-quit?fbclid=IwAR3g1JEFem_0ICV5TrWPSwMPpZHZl7cYLESq2w0P-...
August 29, 2019 at 12:37
In: Brexit  — view comment
When even the FT is anti tory, it is clear they are completely mad. https://www.ft.com/content/9dbc7852-c9b2-11e9-af46-b09e8bfe60c0
August 29, 2019 at 10:34
In: Brexit  — view comment
One might have said that you can't suspend parliament for a month during an urgent crisis to prevent it from exercising its will. I think she could ha...
August 29, 2019 at 10:17
In: Bannings  — view comment
TRC is not ABO (a bannable offence), and nor is AA (acronymic addiction), AFAIK. Incidentally the offending link remains in a quote.
August 29, 2019 at 09:19
In: Brexit  — view comment
According to a notorious liar, everything is fine.
August 28, 2019 at 14:18
It is hard to exaggerate how radical this idea is. No exams, no competitions - what on earth would we do all day?
August 28, 2019 at 10:29
Yeah, let's not make those comparisons, ACE is an indicator not a measure. I suspect that the more subtle and indirect the abuse, the worse it is - fo...
August 27, 2019 at 09:38
Hi there. There is a connection; folks that are in denial about their own trauma have to insist that everything's ok, and if everything ok, yet other ...
August 27, 2019 at 08:05