unenlightened

Seeing that self-promotion is frowned upon with a heavy banning finger, here is some promotion of someone who is not me at all, but who is sometimes r...

I'm gonna put this little video here as well as in the real thread. The problem with the topic is that there is a vested interest of the hyper-wealthy...

But you sure can suck them!

Here is a simple breakdown of the state of play between the media and politics and climate change. My takeaway is this: If we do not reach net zero, t...

This implies that cooking is just externalised partial digestion, as flies vomit digestive juices onto their food and suck up the breakdown products. ...

Or to put it another way, despite 40 years of warnings and analysis and many developments of alternative energy sources, we haven't even stopped incre...

The ring of truth is not like the ring of commitment or the ring of confidence, which are loops. The ring of truth is like the ring of a bell or the r...

And I will dance on it in a red dress, red high heels and very wide brimmed red hat. But probably in ghostly form.

I don't claim to have all the answers either - just the right ones. :cool:

What is your evidence to the contrary? You can claim the meaning of words as evidence, but then you are retreating from factuality yourself. But there...

Suffering is good for the soul. Imperfection is better than perfection. Knowledge creates the unknown.

There's going to be a lot of adjustments to be made by all of us, most of which are likely to be fatal. And there comes a time when the lifeboat is fu...

I guess you believe that statement is true, and I would almost agree, except that I have never to my recollection articulated the statement or assente...

@"Banno" The bus ought to be here at 8:00 AM every day (according to the timetable). But it isn't always or inevitably. Ordinary language has use for ...

The sensation of flying is pleasurable. So go jump off a cliff. Falling is exhilarating, but landing is unpleasant. Therefore, bungee jumping. Philoso...

Once I get the socks, they will no longer be free. I will imprison them in sensible shoes with good soles. My soul was already lost in the manifold, s...

Stumbleshitskin.

Yeah, good news. Rooftop solar builds in resilience. Amazing that they survived the storm so well.

Do forget it, it is a nonsense. Nobody needs to starve in the US because of an influx of migrants until the warming gets really really bad and food is...

https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/the-carbon-brief-profile-china/index.html https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-solar-growth-keeps-chinas-co...

In the beginning God created everything, blah, blah. And Adam and Eve lived in the garden of Eden forever. Happily ever after. The End. There's no sto...

Well you get some points for effort, I suppose. :cool:

Our eyes coincide.

I think China has just leased half of Siberia for 50 years for tuppence ha'penny. I doubt if there will be anyone to claim it back when the lease is u...

:up: Yes please, thank you. If you're going to be obnoxious, you gotta have some class.

So how many did it take?

Dearly beloved, Nature is harsh, and nature is gentle by turns, and This concerns all of living nature, including humans. Don't get too comfortable or...

No. They can, of course they can, but they don't want to. The US crisis is deliberately created with malice aforethought. Disaster economics are being...

Mere? I'm not going to speak for everyone, or most people, or universality. Are you merely asking questions, or are you seriously asking them? I don't...

:up: Mikie's link above. Oh, the US is the biggest oil and gas producer? Let's look at coal instead. Why do we still have to waste time on this nonsen...

I don't generally give chemistry lessons for free. In brief though, acids and alkalis are water based solutions containing ions H+ and OH- respectivel...

No; you were pointing the finger and setting it up as an excuse to do nothing and claim innocence. And it's not fine, it's reprehensible, that you are...

Yes and you were pointing in entirely the wrong direction. https://energydigital.com/top10/top-10-countries-using-renewable-energies

That is a misleading graph. The problem is not just coal, and not just the last 40 years, and furthermore, the slight decline in consumption in the We...

The engineer's attitude to sex is that holes are designed to be filled by shafts with matching threads. You are one of God's bolts and you have to fin...

I don't understand the question. Water just is water. Nothing makes it water to me. Do you mean how do I tell something is water and not white spirit,...

Notes from underground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5wajKa4iz8

That is a somewhat superficial property, a feature only of the modernish decimal system. It does have more ancient significance as the number of the f...

I'm going to confess some wokeness. (I think that's what it is.) Until I watched the little video below, it had never occurred to that it had never oc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTHPqQqZq6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSWoSV7bLxs

Yeah, I was at school during the Cuban missile crisis, so I've been expecting to go extinct for over 60 years now. But I think it is 100% a bad thing;...

I don't know; I wanted to know how you arrived at your certainties. You speak of 'empirical' as though you can look at nature and see essences ... I c...

Hmm. 2 months since my last post, and 4months since anyone else's. There really is nothing to discuss is there? It's all our funerals, and so no one w...

Celebrating the official passing of the first tipping point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBoXY5YeVo And a short discussion of the psychology of c...

This is of course, completely fake; but keep smiling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNgNYnktCtE

Yes please. Let's have less shoutbox, and more songbox. Here's one from the afterlife, curtesy of The Grateful Dead —

Ok, I concede. I understand even less than I did when you began of what you claim. I shrug, dismiss and move on. You have no criteria, just endless un...

I am the absolute charlatan, I am the turnip of fear; I am the far-flung horizon Whispering into your ear.

But seriously, for a moment, a 'mass delusion', is by definition not a mental illness but a social one - and that has profound implications. It become...

Yes indeed. I pity you, I really do. Two psychiatrists meet on the Street. "Hello" say the first, "you're fine, how am I?"