The Department of Undue Diligence has determined that the only people who use "woke" as a term of abuse are minute men, Southerners who, lacking the c...
The only alternative I've found to health is sickness; and a pile of horseshit at £20 is pretty alternatively invigorating even at todays' prices. A f...
I think they are not sure. There are several positive feedback mechanisms, and some negative ones. The albedo is one, and the loss of sea ice can also...
This seems to me to be fundamental to the relative coolness of our climate ever since. In the North, the ice sheets come and go, but the Antarctic has...
I can tell you the answer, but you're not going to like it. People will starve, they will get on the train to the extermination camp, and they will di...
There is no way they would have thought you were French; that was them publicly humiliating you for having the temerity to be in France and not speak ...
You can have a smaller or larger slice of the pie, but when it gets to half the pie and beyond, you basically have the pie, minus a slice or two. A sl...
"Sea ice" you should say; Greenland ice will take a little longer to melt, fortunately. I'm all for editing articles, and I agree the sentence is wool...
It seems only reasonable to consult the inventor about his invention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sandwich Half a bun is n...
Capital markets are wise enough to build a facility and entice us with the promise of jobs to take out mortgages on places they know full well are goi...
"Global Warming Good News: No More Ice Ages" I cannot comment on the computer model, but my argument is that this is very very bad news, not good news...
To make it clearer, my reason for calling the time of the evolution of humans a period of stability is the Antarctic ice sheet which started developin...
Perhaps I wasn't clear. The history of humanity spans roughly the Quaternary period, which consists of alternating glaciations and interglacials over ...
It has become more apparent as the working poor have lost their economic power, and the social welfare gains of the C20th are rolled back. But don't w...
I am wasting my time there because it will only become possible for humanity to restrain themselves from disrupting their own environment to the point...
The story so far. We have solar cycles, about which not much is known over the long term, because the records cannot be read through the inferred infl...
:rofl: Folks have been looking for a real world example ever since whichever pedant it was raised the 'grue' thing, and you have found it! My hearties...
Well I put up links to help folks with terminology and timelines, and numbers of years ago are really useful for sorting things. But the Cambrian expl...
It bloody well does matter what we call them. You really need to stop waving "ice ages" about quite so carelessly. Do you not see how confusing you ar...
You know how when you want to open a jar, one hand holds the jar and the other the lid and they twist against each other to get the job done? You and ...
Yes, quite sure. "Rule" is an ill-defined entity that can be an axiom, a law, a tautology or simply a statistical likelihood. It's a well known saying...
Trade unions began during the industrial revolution. Lots of workers in one place allowed them to identify together and organise together. https://en....
Can I suggest that we take this slowly, and provide sufficient detail to avoid misunderstandings as much as possible. I'm going to start with this htt...
I'm in two minds about this question. On the one hand, when one does separate the halves of the brain, one can see evidence of a division of mind. htt...
No. I think their success was down to frightening the Tories into adopting their policy, which they did by "splitting the vote." Without those losing ...
You can make anything a goal, if you make it your goal it is a goal. I am not accusing you of being a capitalist. Nevertheless, your psychology as des...
Indeed. Life is complicated. One can influence different people in different ways with the same small act. Nevertheless, Brexit got done despite the B...
This is not true. Political movements inevitably start small and have to grow. One way they are seen to grow is by increasing their support in an elec...
I'm not wedded to it. I suggest a new thread. Try and describe the thinking self in system theoretic terms, and let's see if we can make sense it. Wha...
Politicians always tell you to vote and they always want you to vote. If the turnout is very low it looks bad on them. sometimes I want it to look bad...
I want more spontaneity in my life. What's the plan? I'm sorry, that's a feeble joke, but my heart sinks to read such stuff. Always more, always strif...
Yeah, I'm stuck on this first bit. I can see the body as a system, or the brain as a system or subsystem, but the thinking self as I understand it is ...
I'm not too familiar with systems theory, but I imagine that any boundary between the system and the environment is conceptual and imposed as a matter...
I can accept that - the secret of success is effort and failure, followed by coincidence, or something like that, but the point I would make is that t...
It becomes more and more difficult to convey. it does not develop. There is no 'how'. Nothing 'happens'. Have you ever had a puzzle or a problem that ...
'Show me the way, O, great one' says the earnest follower of every religion. But insight is present or it is absent, and there is no method, or traini...
If we have the same insight, we can talk about it; https://alanwatts.org/2-2-5-buddhism-as-dialogue-part-1/ But if you have an insight that I do not, ...
https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ https://www.livescience.com/humans-first-warned-about-climate-change. So everyone is right. Put it on your tombston...
The fact, or rather the likelihood, that the climate will settle down to an approximate stability fairly conducive to life in a few tens or hundreds o...
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