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If you can explain please, I'll consider. What death betrayal and theft?
December 24, 2023 at 16:50
If you say so.
December 24, 2023 at 14:16
So calling people grifters is not taking the moral high ground? Literally, you will make any idiotic accusation not to engage with the rather serious ...
December 24, 2023 at 14:08
Of course you don't. But if you look, you will find that climate science has been accused of "grift" of regiousity, of ... oh never mind, I cannot be ...
December 24, 2023 at 13:23
That's not entirely true. By and large, democratic governments cannot afford to look very seriously beyond the next election, but not everything is de...
December 24, 2023 at 10:44
I prefer ruby port. And not just because the barrels are bigger.
December 24, 2023 at 10:08
That would be a stronger argument if it were not the sceptics that framed it that way.
December 24, 2023 at 09:54
"Why should I?" is the devil's question. If someone doesn't care about other people, they don't care what other people say. So there is no answer wort...
December 24, 2023 at 09:39
If it's true.
December 24, 2023 at 09:17
People like to have children, and like to have a bit of room, so it's a bit silly is to imagine an end to all shortage and limitation. Perhaps we will...
December 24, 2023 at 08:26
When are the robots going to start making more land?
December 23, 2023 at 21:35
No they ain't. Thinking can stop. In the silence of the mind is the freedom to respond, and in that responsibility is the creative freedom of the arti...
December 23, 2023 at 21:30
I am going to answer this question, or pair of related questions, without recourse to a dictionary, by way, in part, of illustrating that communicatio...
December 23, 2023 at 21:14
I prefer to start at the other end, and set a lower limit on the wealth of the least wealthy. and that limit would be sufficient to be fed, clothed an...
December 23, 2023 at 18:24
It's a basic mouth taste, that Europe didn't know about but the orientals did. Is The word in English would be"savoury" . Monosodium glutamate is the ...
December 23, 2023 at 14:20
If I remember my organic chemistry aright, proteins are comprised of amino acids that are chain molecules with an acid at one end and an amine base at...
December 23, 2023 at 12:33
Specifically, synchronicity is a sign one is on the right spiritual path. According to Jung. In other news, you are warned to stay away from https://w...
December 22, 2023 at 21:47
I remember when this was modern. All part of my indoctrination. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPrAuF2f_oI
December 22, 2023 at 20:31
That has little to do with inhaled or ingested plastics that are liable I imagine to clog things up and reduce absorption of oxygen and food respectiv...
December 22, 2023 at 20:14
What are you denying about Dr John Christy? That the research has been widely questioned? That it is a minority view among climate scientists? That Ex...
December 22, 2023 at 18:13
We know for a fact that the tobacco industry worked very hard to hold back the science on the extent to which smoking was lethal. We know that the oil...
December 22, 2023 at 15:40
Yeah, No grifting involved at all there. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02112020/john-christy-alabama-climate-contrarian/ Exon Mobil lobbyists bei...
December 22, 2023 at 14:25
Goldie Lookin Chain has @"NOS4A2"'s back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXc8CbSoPsw One of those arguments that works forwards and backwards and bel...
December 22, 2023 at 09:05
No Mikie, its about how you and I are grifters or grifter's suckers, or spouting pseudo-religious hooey, with uncouth agendas, and above all rude and ...
December 21, 2023 at 23:20
You're such a sucker, frank, responding to our clickbait all the time. If only there were adverts on this thread you'd be making us a fortune.alas I'm...
December 21, 2023 at 19:05
"They" the media? choose a child because that makes it more believable? Rather than - a grown up climate scientist or someone like that. That totally ...
December 21, 2023 at 18:48
It's psychobabble Jim, not pseudo-religious hooey, and definitely not grift. And the scattergun adhom epithets you are using are exactly what it expla...
December 21, 2023 at 18:30
WRT water, at a given pressure and temperature below the boiling point, the partial pressure of water vapour in the atmosphere reaches an equilibrium ...
December 21, 2023 at 10:42
Assembly language is the best.
December 20, 2023 at 11:40
Hey guys, take it to Marriage Guidance, and leave this space for the discussion of climate change, huh?
December 20, 2023 at 10:13
Congratulations to you both on the new addition to the family. I hope it works out well for you all. And even if it doesn't work so well, there is a f...
December 19, 2023 at 22:18
I gonna put this here as well as the shout box, because it's almost on topic and it is a refreshingly philosophical take on politics. I am not a Conse...
December 19, 2023 at 15:15
I am not a Conservative, but here is a rather long lecture by an ex conservative mp about world politics that I think is worth hearing. https://www.yo...
December 19, 2023 at 11:35
Well let us suppose instead, that whenever a woman conceives, the man responsible must attach himself to the woman via some umbilical type chord for t...
December 17, 2023 at 17:51
Seriously, but not literally. just as philosophers can be likened to therapists, so they can be likened to the policemen of thought, keeping thoughts ...
December 17, 2023 at 16:42
Absolutely. But it's interesting, because it is very unlikely that one will again come across the exact same chess position, and be able to make a dif...
December 17, 2023 at 12:11
Very nice, I have no major complaints. But why so many Mentos? It is somewhat cautious, and that is a good thing in places and times of some stability...
December 16, 2023 at 23:12
I have the best words, and the best words are whatever you want to hear... if you want to hear I am mentally challenged, you will hear it, but if you ...
December 16, 2023 at 22:41
Well yes for sure, back then I may have considered it, and back then I could have chosen it. But back then it wasn't a counterfactual, but an imagined...
December 16, 2023 at 21:31
I'm gonna stick my neck out and say that no counterfactual about the past (or the present) is possible. History can be rewritten, but the past is fixe...
December 16, 2023 at 17:11
But this is a universal objection that applies to chess moves or anything whatsoever. If I had moved my bishop on move 17 thus and so, it would have b...
December 16, 2023 at 15:13
Stuff and structure. Stuff without out structure would be a universe of gunk; structure without stuff would be an empty idea. But structure is not mor...
December 16, 2023 at 11:06
Hopefully, it means that one might sometimes survive gene therapy. But if I have established that there is never any difficulty distinguishing oneself...
December 16, 2023 at 09:31
Incomplete sentences, because if you never quite make sense, you never actually lie. (First discovered by admen). Hope to have given a strong impressi...
December 15, 2023 at 21:16
Some stipulated counterfactuals are more plausible than others, as here: (my bold) At this level of plausibility, such a counterfactual can function a...
December 15, 2023 at 21:06
Did y'all know, counterfactuals are all false? they have the form, If then . If then . But wishes cannot be horses {because they do not have the right...
December 15, 2023 at 20:04
Cool. But I won't be joining you there to discuss. Or possibly I will, whatever!
December 15, 2023 at 14:16
I take it that you are someone. I take it that since you cannot make the possibility of any kind of moral obligation believable, you do not believe it...
December 15, 2023 at 13:39
I pity you. But I will just point out that you have undermined all of your thread which is based on various scenarios of "everyone believes..."
December 15, 2023 at 09:36
I read it, but i decided it would be a cold day in hell before your nonsense achieved much agreement. So I decided not to wait.
December 14, 2023 at 21:11