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Perhaps child-rearing is an undervalued contribution to the economy; a cost that individuals choose not to bear unaided in support of a society that d...

Yes, but falsely.

We know that this is one-sided reporting. But the other side? You want to hear from them? There is no other side - the world is round. https://www.you...

Spoken like a veritable jumbliphobe. The denigration of such innocence can only be explained as projection. Remember what the dormouse said. "Feed you...

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between nonsense and weird. The prosecution rests.

No, he is not at all of that ilk. https://www.oatridge.co.uk/poems/e/edward-lear-the-dong-with-a-luminous-nose.php Not a boojum, nor any other kind of...

When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; — When the angry breakers roar As they b...

Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

I speak as an expert. Like Samson, I have never shaved but once, but I use electric clippers to keep the mane out of the soup.

Humans eat pig, and pigs will likewise eat human, if it is on offer. But pigs are less aggressive. It's time to drain the swamp that is the shout box,...

Plenty of reading and good advice already. But here is a handy free online crib sheet to use whenever you come across a name or a term that you are no...

Yes, but it looks as though you have misunderstood the science being reported. It's not carbon dating. The sooty carbon layers from fire smoke deposit...

Nero fiddled.

I heard; some people are saying; a lot of people actually think; we'll be holding a press conference about it in a few weeks and I'll be making some r...

Do we get a referendum on what topics we have a referendum on?

Yes. I note that causation is also an abstraction, and that there is not 'necessarily' more than one object, and leave you in peace.

This becomes a ridiculous question as soon as you understand that "abstract" literally means "taken out". https://en.bab.la/dictionary/english/abstrac...

A1. 23 divides by 3 exactly into 7 & 2/3. A2. You have introduced 'whole' and 'unbroken'. If you have 23 objects you have already mathematicised them ...

And lo, God said "this should freak them scientists out for a century or Two." And verily, it was so. https://www.britannica.com/story/why-is-the-plat...

I, (or perhaps just this post,) am the answer to all you godless people's prayers. Therefore the quoted premise is false.

You should, but everyone else, not so much. :grin: I mean, the other way round. Oh, let's just agree to disagree about it all.

No. they are supposed to smile at the sarcasm. Like this : :grin:

Yes, but that is, for me, the value of philosophy; that it can somewhat clean up conceptual messes. There's something messy about how we think and tal...

Herewith, some more lies and propaganda from the new scientist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG_iHwEn33I

There is something interesting here though. Triggering cause, trigger, enabling condition bullet in chamber? "Guns don't kill people, rappers do." We ...

As witness: Wot? Falling not caused by Gravity? :gasp:

But not me. I scrutinise your every word. And I trust, by and large, the published temperature figures of meteorological departments, because I don't ...

And God said, "I'm not going to be ordered about by a bunch of bloody logicians." and promptly ceased to exist. (Plagiarised from Douglas Adams.)

Well that seems the other way round from the op, and totally in line with the notion that action at a distance would be "spooky". But in practice, we ...

I never am wrong, so I wouldn't know. Always I realise I was wrong when I have just changed my mind. :cool:

Being wrong is the best thing ever. It is the fundamental unit of learning.

And then there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXElfzVgg6M

I can make some limited sense of necessary and sufficient causes, but direct and indirect? What do they mean, what is the distinction being made?

Two pythons on one page! I think we have broken the nonvenomous snake record. It must be global warming leading to an excess of hot air. :nerd: :sweat...

Innocence:— that from which one has fallen. It only has importance or even meaning from the point of view of the fallen, as the name and symbol of the...

You are talking rubbish. No one has suggested that nighttime temperatures in Kuwait at night exceed those during the day, though it is conceivable tha...

Yet another report: a valediction for the natural world. https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-GB/

Was going to put this in the lounge somewhere, but then I thought to look for the why care about truth nonsense, and then felt very tired. So here it ...

You just gave it to me. A daytime urban cool island is produced by basic physics. Dry sand has air pockets that are a net insulator as compared to sol...

Well no it couldn't. On the contrary, the fact that daytime temperatures are reduced by extra absorption of heat by concrete could explain why day tim...

Neither yes men nor no men such as yourself are of any value to a discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlv_aZjHXc

Forgive me, I will not take your advice. If no one shovels out the shit, then the whole thread becomes shit. If I was a mod, I would have banned, but ...

I'm irrelevant too because I don't get to vote. But I notice that Dump has become of late a magnet for flies - so he seems to report and comment on in...

https://web.archive.org/web/20231218172054/https://public-old.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/wmo-verifies-3rd-and-4th-hottest-temperature-recorded-ear...

A troll, a complete troll, and nothing but a troll. There is literally no end to your bullshit, is there?

What has changed though is trade union power. The Wilson era was the last one in which the unions held huge power and influence on policy of either pa...

We've been in a slow decline since WW2 and the end of Empire. Your analysis is pretty good; Thatcherism and Blairism were both about selling off all t...

Or good intentions, presumably. Isn't that what humans do as best they can anyway - take control of the world to adapt it to their requirements? And i...

You have not really illuminated me as to what you mean by intelligence, but I infer from what you say, that you mean language manipulation. In which c...

https://www.pbs.org/video/are-we-at-the-tipping-point-udlvvz/ First of a series of easy-watching videos that might illuminate a little.