Interesting metaphor, thank you. :smile: There’s some sort of group-mind mass psychology thing that happens in every culture or civilization, I imagin...
This could be the first two lines of a limerick, possibly a dirty one. If that’s the case, no AI in the universe could possibly come up with a dirtier...
Thanks for your reply! Much appreciated. :smile: Yes. My post is not history, not anthropology, not psychology, nor pure fiction either. Maybe some co...
@"Athena" @"Vera Mont" @"180 Proof" @"universeness" (Would love to hear feedback from you on this post. And from anyone else too. Apologies for the lo...
Thank you for all you do! This is a very interesting and informative conversation indeed. Yes… love all people (animal persons too like the baby cardi...
A quick glance at the link seems like it’d be worth investigating. Thanks! But the main change in procedure the two parties are interested in is redis...
Well yes, unfortunately. The USA is like some rich or noble family with a long history, who has had turmoil and corruption and infighting and are tryi...
Thanks very much for the effort of creating this essay and for sharing it here with us. :smile: :flower: (and for making it accessible without a Mediu...
What arguments in the OP? Some mild ranting with a few questions at the end. The innocuous-sounding term “color-blindness”, which if was ever well-int...
Is anyone else sick of the cry of ‘YOU’LL SPLIT THE VOTE!!!’ every frickin time any 3rd party candidate sticks their head out of the ground in the USA...
Thanks for your response. :smile: More and more, I’m leaning towards democratic socialism. I was pulling for Bernie Sanders, but I don’t think the cou...
:up: Exactly, not with the way most jobs are now. Although our culture agrees that nobody should have a job… they should have two or three jobs if the...
Thanks for your input. :halo: What you are saying here appears to be close to democratic socialism perhaps? Which is quite fine in my book. Just wante...
I’m trying to visualize/think about whether there are ANY ‘pipes’ (flow of material, energy, information etc) that are NOT blocked. Maybe some that ar...
:up: Thanks very much for your reply! :smile: That makes perfect sense. Urban cultures definitely have unique features to them. Our entire world seems...
:up: Thanks for your reply! :smile: I was going to respond by saying something like “this (situation you described) is completely unacceptable in an a...
Thanks for your reply! :smile: As for the identities you mention are deeply ingrained in our bodies and minds, so it’d be difficult to actively dilute...
:up: Thanks for your reply! Sorry to hear that this is an international crisis. Sounds like you were on the front lines and did all you could. Student...
Ah yes… education. A definite necessity. But the details… what kind of education? In the USA, the public schools do an excellent job of getting the ki...
This side conversation could be fascinating, but I’ll try to steer the discussion back to the OP (which is giving examples of bad logic and informal f...
Ok, won’t argue with that point! But the computer would have to be given authority to make important decisions with many nuanced circumstances and pos...
This is a crucial question. And because it seems difficult to not think it sounds like a naïve question or adopt a jaded, cynical, or pessimistic atti...
:up: Thanks for your reply! If our civilization as a whole were a car, it would be one being held together by duct tape and wire with a frame so ruste...
Umm, thanks? :wink: I was following your conversation with @"FrancisRay". I was just trying to make sense of what was being said, and how to possibly ...
Sometimes I wonder who (or what) the top leader is. Who’s giving the orders? Presidents, ministers, corporations? Banks? Little pieces of cloth-paper ...
Definitely! The business of death taints and poisons everything it touches with its bloody skeleton fingers. Even during ‘peace time’ it hovers over u...
:up: Yes, well put. Many writers have compared our high-tech yet unstable culture with adolescence. Strong and bright but reckless and headstrong. And...
I don’t think it’s a fallacy, but the biggest logical disconnect in politics is when millionaire candidates ask their poor followers for money. Lewis ...
https://i.redd.it/based-meme-v0-ac564cxmr2mb1.jpg?s=ce831a7005d895abad24caca0e3ca6dbc6828df4. I’m trying to refute the bottom argument, but it’s too s...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K7w25SK0gRU&pp=ygUIRG9ndmlsbGU%3D Warning: if paintings of dogs playing poker disturb you, then this video might give yo...
https://img.ifunny.co/images/47902e1a9c0db22e1a334f40d0ea0b908d02ed050372ebe0ef217586be3c3795_1.jpg I’m not sure this Stoic philosopher has been fully...
Thanks for your reply. I probably have a different sort of ‘patriot’ in mind: Bernie Sanders lol. Yeah, he lost, he’s too old, he’s not a reeeeal genu...
Fascinating map thanks. :up: Apparently, going ten miles from California into the Reno / Vegas, Nevada area causes one’s life expectancy to plummet. M...
Thanks for interesting language tip. Had to look up the meaning of backronym. Thought it was a portmanteau for ‘backassward-acronym’ (a no longer appr...
Interesting, but I don’t see why a person’s sense of duty needs to be controlled, redeemed, or influenced by some kind of ideal leader. “the right peo...
Yes, it reads quite macho. You can smell the sigma male aftershave. :cool: Which is fine when counterbalanced by an example of a mother walking throug...
https://media.makeameme.org/created/i-dont-always-3f28c8b1ad.jpg See ya again Jimmy… hopefully later than sooner. You might have a slight reduction in...
I’ve long thought that firing people (or not hiring them at all) for cannabis use is stupid and unfair. As long as the person shows up for work ready ...
Thanks! That’s good to hear how well it is working for you. That helps me know I’m not imagining the positive effects because of some pipe dream lol. ...
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