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I'm just not interested in the point you have so convincingly demonstrated.

Ok dude.Goal scored. Congratulations.

Sure, it was. Earth belongs to life, and life belongs to Earth in a reciprocal relation. I fence off my garden and dispossess you the people and also ...

Private property is stolen from the commons.

I don't think it is a weapon shortage that is causing that. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/22/andrei-zheleznyakov-soviet-scientist-poisone...

What that seems to indicate is the moment when it stopped being the American Reality. I think the morality of capitalism depends on there being a fron...

When you are asking, clearly not. Because that is what we call a rhetorical question.

Obviously not. To ask is already to know that. Unfortunately, designing wheelchairs is less well paid, so you have to decide how much your moral integ...

I'm reminded of certain usually American, typically psychology and self help books that have such a coded structure, using fonts and layout: bullet po...

Well in terms of making a stash, becoming president, and such, one can go a long way on crutches; in a sense they are crutches. (see Alice Miller) In ...

1970 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKpBmTgwC5g

I have no doubt at all that a secure, free, and happy childhood is the master key. If one is loved and nurtured and cherished throughout one's formati...

From 'Puppet Song', by The Incredible String band. Seek it out for the whole wonderful story... And so the little man climbed up on a rickety ladder, ...

I think you need at least to be more respectful to these ideas, that have been thought through very carefully by folks much cleverer than me. Consider...

There seems to be a conflation of ideas here that don't quite relate. The sense I make of Stalin's quote is that empathy is always individual - I feel...

Yeah, that. So much more understandable than what I said, not. So life can accumulate stored energy as wood coal and oil by utilising the sun's energy...

I think the broken glass is more complex than the unbroken. We are in the realm of entropy here: symmetry breaking, increasing disorder and increasing...

Here's a story. A brick with kinetic energy X hits a sheet of glass and the energy is transmitted from the brick to the glass causing lines of fractur...

I agree. It would be less risky though with UK government or at least intelligence cooperation, but the fact that it makes perfect sense as a Russian ...

I wish you all the best, and hope you can keep a small centre of calm in the whirlwind. Because you're worth it, as they say. :heart:

Whether the flag was true or false, it seems clear that it was a big red flag, and the flag was 'Russian'. It is surely undeniable that whoever had th...

Just to annoy people, and confirm my status as postmodern neo-marxist pervert, here's a brief waffle about a form of conflict theory that has stuck in...

Who needs skills, anyway, with an education like this? If a trained gun user can injure three students in a gun safety lesson, without the aid of any ...

Our identity is fine, your identity is suspect, their identity is outrageous.

Well I think it is more so exemplified in the oppressed themselves, at least that is where it becomes paradoxical. One can say that women are underrep...

Yes. It seems to me that what is objected to is always the identifications of the oppressed. It is not confederations of business people, gated commun...

When I was young I didn't like history much, but now that I am mostly history, I have much more respect for it.

Curiously, the roots of communism are also the roots of American independence.

I see party politics as identity politics.

In other news, the word 'dispute' used to have the emphasis on the second syllable in line with 'discard' and 'dismiss', and out of line with discord....

The word 'tremendously' is tremendously important and valuable and I am tremendously fond of it. Unfortunately, due to quantitive easing, it now means...

Look to the roots.

One might almost think that there is a commonality of regime change, and fragility of power structures that leads to massacres. As if those in power d...

Here's one for the conspiracy theorists. Big data is stealing your mind and your elections. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/17/faceboo...

I was thinking about miracle cures myself in the meantime. I think if you could do it on a regular* basis, and the placebo effect couldn't account for...

It's a one in a million chance, give or take. So the circumstances matter. If you were doing that twenty times a day for ten years and getting it wron...

I'd like to follow Hume down his rabbit hole a bit. Elsewhere, in his sceptical discussion of causation, he notes that the laws of nature are derived ...

Well yes, the caterpillar does exactly the same thing in millions of cases and over millions of years. Not mum and dad, but their genes are rearranged...

It is certainly an odd notion I have, but there is a logic that I find persuasive. If something 'comes from' somewhere, it is not new, but merely a re...

Well it was the thread - that is to say the topic - that I identified as trollish, and then only when I was invoked. And that is because the short ans...

I use scientific results and ways of thinking to make a cup of coffee every morning. But I think I decided last time I looked at it unscientifically t...

Well yes I do. There is a point at which I step back from scientism, and even philosophism, and resort to mysticism. One might say that the whole huma...

The hearts and minds of the wonderful people turn out to flighty fickle affairs. No doubt Everyone expected this.

Let's have a chat about Milankovitch cycles. Be aware that we are not dealing in mere centuries here, so they won't explain anything sudden, like. htt...

I predict there will not be another presidential election, because the economy no longer has to care about the mass of people, and what they think.

Of course the suggestion of this thread is part of the postmodern neomarxist conspiracy, as Psychology Today reveals. Don't say You weren't warned!

We all like to think we are the same. We call ourselves humans, or philosophers, or 'we'.

I wouldn't be the first to say that. But it is a bit misleading, as slogans tend to be. The past is recorded in rock sediments the deep past in the mi...

Meanwhile in the UK, we have our own Russian interference problems. A second unexplained death is being investigated, but here's a depressingly likely...

Well in this context, we want to be very general and inclusive, and that presents a problem, that we are trying to account for life the universe and e...