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 ...
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 ...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Yeah, No grifting involved at all there. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02112020/john-christy-alabama-climate-contrarian/ Exon Mobil lobbyists bei...
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...
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 ...
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...
"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 ...
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...
WRT water, at a given pressure and temperature below the boiling point, the partial pressure of water vapour in the atmosphere reaches an equilibrium ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Seriously, but not literally. just as philosophers can be likened to therapists, so they can be likened to the policemen of thought, keeping thoughts ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hopefully, it means that one might sometimes survive gene therapy. But if I have established that there is never any difficulty distinguishing oneself...
Incomplete sentences, because if you never quite make sense, you never actually lie. (First discovered by admen). Hope to have given a strong impressi...
Some stipulated counterfactuals are more plausible than others, as here: (my bold) At this level of plausibility, such a counterfactual can function a...
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...
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...
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