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Meanwhile, here's something that could have gone in the climate change thread, but the natives are restless so I think it safer here. https://www.yout...
November 10, 2024 at 12:10
Me too. A case where psychology recapitulates biology. To your wiki link. Alas my organic chemistry encompasses the idea that amino acids have an an a...
November 10, 2024 at 12:03
Herewith, the future of energy, if we are smart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITXy_XdhP0g
November 09, 2024 at 18:49
No. Even, perhaps especially, famous extroverts hide behind dark sunglasses and have people to talk to other people's people for them when regrettably...
November 09, 2024 at 12:44
Under either regime. Because neither are honest. But the forces of nature require depopulation and the tightening of belts around stomachs and necks. ...
November 09, 2024 at 10:18
When one has a sense of self, of individuality, that very identification keeps one apart. And as we all have that sense, we have the need to be apart,...
November 09, 2024 at 10:11
That is true, but are you suggesting that history teaches that tyrants kings emperors dictators and oppressive regimes in general never prevail for a ...
November 09, 2024 at 09:30
Here is the truth. Automation has destroyed the power base of the working class. Mass production and mass consumption is no longer necessary to produc...
November 08, 2024 at 19:28
November 08, 2024 at 14:20
And now— the biology of self, and the selfless organism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4aNzZ7cMxQ
November 08, 2024 at 14:07
Here's a hair-raising tale for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ujkIgqRWI
November 08, 2024 at 13:10
In the long run, one dies. What is rational about self interest? It is like betting on a legless horse that cannot even finish, never mind win. Self i...
November 08, 2024 at 12:12
Oh dear, I was completely wrong. My deep commiserations! Your government cannot make life much better, but it sure can make it worse.
November 06, 2024 at 10:17
You are pointing the finger at me. Any contradicting proves me right.
November 05, 2024 at 17:38
Climate scientists have been saying for many many years in response to questions as to whether this or that weather event is caused by climate change,...
November 05, 2024 at 13:20
https://www.thelancet.com/countdown-health-climate Another lamentation for you to download. Or just watch Sir Issac Newton and his pal Paul Beckwith b...
November 05, 2024 at 13:03
Looks interesting. Alas for the disenchanted, they have lost the song and are left with only noise.
November 04, 2024 at 16:56
And there is no doubt about it. The sea is warmer, so more moisture evaporates. There is no doubt. That doesn't mean that every disaster is a record b...
November 04, 2024 at 16:35
You gave none.
November 04, 2024 at 11:29
You are not justified in such a blanket criticism of a rather fulsome explanation of why the area is prone to such floods and a further explanation of...
November 03, 2024 at 21:08
There's no rule that says you get a choice, either. In fact you don't get a choice; you live in an anarchy and people set up governments and mafias ev...
November 03, 2024 at 19:04
I would say that anarchy is the state of no rules, and it is the universal social condition. There are not, nor can there be, any rules that forbid th...
November 03, 2024 at 18:03
Fair point. Ok, I concede; "obviously" was a misspoken epithet on my part.
November 02, 2024 at 15:37
Nor is my first premise. I think my argument is valid and sound, and expresses the principle of explosion. Similar nonsense results when you divide by...
November 02, 2024 at 13:36
If contradiction, then anything. contradiction. therefore anything.
November 02, 2024 at 11:18
Valid, but unsound. 1. is a conditional contradiction. 2. fulfils the condition' And from a contradiction, anything and everything follows. This is th...
November 01, 2024 at 19:06
This is a very feeble ad hominem, even by your low standards. Some scientists do more than others. They need to communicate with the world and with go...
November 01, 2024 at 08:51
They're rather jolly. Such extravagant displays can only evolve in an environment of plenty where the quality of the genes is all important and assist...
October 31, 2024 at 21:07
Completely off topic today, but we need cheering up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmNYqXEoDi8
October 31, 2024 at 14:09
Paul Beckwith discusses the latest World Meteorological Organization Report on the atmosphere CO2 etc. levels. I'm sure politicians and economists are...
October 31, 2024 at 13:11
And "46chromosomes" is not arbitrary? Suppose in fact there doesn't have to be an answer. Suppose we have to make decisions about the rights and wrong...
October 31, 2024 at 08:05
"The spirit of the law" is not a religious term. But I don't think it helps to have the conversation in purely physical terms either, and that is my p...
October 30, 2024 at 20:45
It's just one damn thing after another.
October 30, 2024 at 19:49
The law is said to have its letter, and also its spirit. I don't see why you and I need to manage with less?
October 30, 2024 at 19:40
Who speaks for the unborn? I don't know, but i know who sings for them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzX9Jf--ZyM
October 30, 2024 at 19:34
Another careful picking apart of a bullshitter who ought to know a lot better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kGiCUiOMyQ And a new magic German feel...
October 29, 2024 at 20:06
When I win the presidency, I'm going to nationalise McDonalds and put Trump in charge of it. In the meantime, I am calling it for the democrats in a n...
October 29, 2024 at 20:03
No x+1. in a series of un-posted thread killing repostes. What does consciousness do? Consciousness masturbates, usually.
October 29, 2024 at 19:54
Super powers.
October 28, 2024 at 10:40
Judge not, that ye be not judged. Condemn the sin, and not the sinner. Yes. This is the hard lesson to learn; that it is plainly arguable where the mo...
October 27, 2024 at 13:29
Aldington is sadly obscure and neglected these days. He wrote an excellent biography of D.H. Lawrence "Portrait of a Genius, But...". Anyway, as the p...
October 26, 2024 at 19:44
A quickie, something for the weekend, to make you me, anyway, smile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp7K6pEWEuk
October 26, 2024 at 19:34
Let the nihilistic locomotive Provide the realistic motive. But as the Great War gave us Death of a Hero, So Roald perhaps Could claim his lapse Of pr...
October 26, 2024 at 18:17
Ok, this is slightly off-topic, and the guy does a great imitation of the mad staring eyed mathematician. But it relates to any number of waffles thre...
October 26, 2024 at 12:00
Shoulda gone in a sieve. As that poem and Nils Loc attest, Dahl was a strict moralist and educator, whose every work had aspirations to social message...
October 26, 2024 at 07:52
Now this is a backroad so scenic and unspoilt, you may want to stop for a picnic. Or, if you need to be somewhere urgently, probably avoid the area al...
October 25, 2024 at 12:34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulwfZ2Gu79o
October 25, 2024 at 10:05
Procrastination is the result of internal conflict, and hence of a divided mind. If I am single minded, there can be no conflict; I am doing what I am...
October 25, 2024 at 09:46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgYmLunLNWw
October 24, 2024 at 20:20
There is an asymmetry, I think. The answer "No." is a performative contradiction, while the answer "Yes." is not. It is a matter of interpretation, bu...
October 24, 2024 at 18:15