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You paranoia is not admissible.
June 20, 2024 at 19:08
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/landmark-supreme-court-ruling-throws-doubt-on-new-uk-fossil-fuel-projects tldr: fossil fue...
June 20, 2024 at 19:03
It is perhaps apposite to say something semi-philosophical about "bias". It is surely the duty of the media, and ordinary mortals not to be even-hande...
June 20, 2024 at 18:15
Your link, NOS. After a lot of stuff about their ad campaign, some maybe-waybes about their fund-raising and stuff. Criticism of the actual content of...
June 20, 2024 at 17:38
Trump is lying, and some people believe his lies because they really want to. People like Trump because they like what he says. I thought you might ha...
June 19, 2024 at 19:56
Of course there aren't. I don't have any experience on which to base my opinions, so i have to rely on theirs. My opinion is that Trump is a miserable...
June 19, 2024 at 15:15
Of course I will. The difficulty though is working out who is they and who is we.
June 19, 2024 at 14:27
I'll just say he's decided he prefers the shark to the electrocution.
June 19, 2024 at 08:51
The first thing we find out is that the best way for us is not identical with the best way for me.
June 18, 2024 at 18:02
Because you are addressing a service industry workforce, obviously, and that is what you think they will want to hear. Or does anyone think that Trump...
June 18, 2024 at 16:25
Perhaps he is a bony-eared assfish.
June 18, 2024 at 16:16
Noble silence.
June 18, 2024 at 10:10
Some interesting material here for those, like me, who are a bit bemused how Trump is popular at all, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dgo4luB73s
June 17, 2024 at 13:01
Then, like Plato, you will answer with your life.
June 17, 2024 at 08:08
You may be right, but my experience is not that at all. I learned much at college but almost nothing of any use from the courses. On the contrary all ...
June 16, 2024 at 19:21
I thought that would be clear, sorry. The worst feature of insanity is lack of insight. Most people think that sanity is normality and so they like wh...
June 16, 2024 at 05:44
My big sister bought this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX9fxBK-BWU
June 15, 2024 at 20:07
Have you seen the movie, Pleasantville? It explains the '60's rather well. There was a desperate need to escape from the American Dream, because it wa...
June 15, 2024 at 06:52
You guys should make like Britain and just incorporate greatness into the name just as you incorporated the unity — "The United States of Great Americ...
June 15, 2024 at 05:59
Objection! A fish that fails to swim against the tide ends up rotting on the beach like a jellyfish. A good fish is one that does not jump out of the ...
June 14, 2024 at 07:46
It seems plausible to me that any large regime will inevitably end up in tyranny. Again, that's my "seems to me" opinion, not a solid claim. Revolutio...
June 14, 2024 at 07:40
Every schoolboy knows that a good dog is an obedient dog, and a bad dog is one that does whatever it wants. So what is a good human?
June 14, 2024 at 06:57
This is a story about the folks who lived around Trump's Scottish golf course. I wonder, since it is distant from the party politics, if folks might b...
June 10, 2024 at 17:36
I never experience sensory data. It is a mere abstraction that imagines the smell of coffee to be "the same" as birdsong and "the same" as a bunch of ...
June 09, 2024 at 09:14
Disclaimer: I know little about Buddhism. There is a point of view, behind the eyes, and a point of hearing between the ears, and there is a sensitive...
June 09, 2024 at 06:36
Nobody ever looks up from a phone, and no one who is on a phone in public is likely to be noticed at all except as an arsehole talking to someone who ...
June 06, 2024 at 16:55
Sure they do, but you have to look up from your book occasionally and look around and smile at anyone who's looking at you. If they smile back, you sa...
June 06, 2024 at 12:35
Be yourself in a public place. If you are unusual but not creepy you will attract the interest of those who might be interested. It might take more th...
June 06, 2024 at 11:50
Right. Understood.
June 05, 2024 at 15:21
Thou shalt not kill 1, or thou shalt not kill 5? In this context, that seems a particularly foolish comment. It happens rather frequently to train dri...
June 05, 2024 at 14:19
And I think you are confusing moral obligations with legal ones. Of course moral obligations are impossible. And if you try very hard indeed, you get ...
June 05, 2024 at 12:26
A while back a concert was bombed by a terrorist in Manchester UK, and there was much criticism because the emergency services (police fire ambulance)...
June 05, 2024 at 09:19
Yes. I challenge the idea that we have no obligation to strangers. We have a small obligation to do something if we reasonably can to make another's s...
June 05, 2024 at 08:47
No, I'm on the other side of the lever pulling in theory, but i think in the moment I would be tempted. Try to keep up. There is no obligation to act ...
June 04, 2024 at 19:34
There are no levers on a television.
June 04, 2024 at 18:49
I'm not sure where you live, but where I live, people are not dying in front of me countless times, or even ever in my longish life.
June 04, 2024 at 18:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmxzQJt80XI Smile! Make America smile again.
June 04, 2024 at 14:05
Nor is there any differential value in the variant examples I offered unless you have something against fat men or people who need transplants. Let me...
June 04, 2024 at 06:35
I do not always do what I think I ought to do. I base what I thought I would do on my feelings on watching the video. But one of the things I believe ...
June 03, 2024 at 16:47
In the light of the video above, where folks were placed in a situation that they really believed that was almost exactly the trolley problem, it is c...
June 03, 2024 at 15:51
Aye, there's the rub. My action killed one, but your inaction killed five. So here is your principle: If I do nothing, I do nothing wrong. So now you ...
June 03, 2024 at 15:40
Hey, I just saved 5 people from certain death, and you're complaining just because I had to sacrifice you? It wasn't my fault you were wandering aroun...
June 03, 2024 at 13:45
If there is a principle that it is right to act to kill 1 to save 5, the principle should apply to both scenarios. Since it doesn't apply to both scen...
June 03, 2024 at 13:25
Then the arithmetic is not crucial, and your justification based on the arithmetic is not valid.
June 03, 2024 at 12:53
The sameness in the scenario is that one acts to deliberately kill one person not in danger, in order to save 5 people who would otherwise die. If you...
June 03, 2024 at 12:47
And yet doctors are not permitted to sacrifice one person to save five lives with organ transplants. The mathematics only works some of the time.
June 03, 2024 at 12:36
A definition is nothing more or less than some words about a word that can roughly substitute for it. Take this as a definition of "definition". Herew...
June 03, 2024 at 10:34
Some people will take any opportunity to make themselves feel better by making others feel worse. And even the mods cannot protect us from that entire...
June 02, 2024 at 12:09
Banana republics traditionally do both, so it's more a matter of choosing which end of the banana you want to eat and which end you want to pratfall o...
June 01, 2024 at 14:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVh-6Kdpb5U Skip to the end if you like, and see what convicted felon Trump said back when he was committing his felon...
June 01, 2024 at 11:04