Yada yada yada. There's the blues, which billions of people experience and overcome regularly, and then there is depression which leads to mental dysf...
To all: Thanks for the responses. After reading through them I will withdraw the suggestion that mask wearing is virtue signally. Maybe it signals sol...
I won't cite newspaper articles (Guardian, Wall Street Journal, New York Times) about the epidemic, but at least many public health experts have voice...
Pantless people properly place protection on their publicly presented penises. I live in Lutheran Lockdown Land so there are no pantless persons, alas...
The great thing about 'virtue signaling' is that people identify the signaler as virtuous, without the signaler having to actually go to the considera...
Masks are certainly made which can be worn for hours and remain effective. These are not generally available to members of the public, or are quite ex...
Technically, true: No consensus. However, there is consistently less certainty about the value of various kinds of masks people are wearing than the v...
Any human system from which the presumption of human error and greed (and more) are removed is ipso facto fantasy. I voted for communism being the per...
Why not just eliminate the corporations? There's nothing that requires us to have corporations that have the rights of persons (as is the case in the ...
I'm going to give your solution short shrift -- meaning rejection. It isn't the forms of currency that are at the root of our economic problems at thi...
Or spreads them apart. Note that some people marched on their statehouses with guns to demand their freedom to get infected, while others defended pub...
World Unity, alleged to be the result of an alien invasion, wouldn't do us much good because the aliens -- having come from very far away they would t...
Mass media has always been big business. As a business, it's primary function is to make money for the media owners. The way mass media makes money is...
The behavior of law enforcement in the county where this happened displays yet more ways of being bad. Corruption (which comes in 31 flavors, like ice...
The killing most likely had significant racial components, but there are many ways to be bad that don't involve race. Vigilante justice (most common i...
No, I don't think it is psychopathology. I loathe Trump; I dislike Biden. BUT, by and large, both parties and both candidates are rational servants of...
Yes, and that's why @"ttjordy" was wondering how open one's discussions should be. Couples, however they define themselves, definitely do better by co...
I don't think people have affairs for one reason only. Successful monogamy requires self and social discipline -- and in many instances, both of those...
Sure, but if you have a large collection of dark details (whatever that might be) one should save those details for a time when the relationship is ma...
It seems like one of the basic ideas of the lockdown program is that it will both flatten the curve, and push severe cases into the not distant future...
I'm 73; It took a long time to get to the point where I could be open about sex. I'm pretty open, given the right audience. Your grandmother's birthda...
Did Finland install its generous social safety early on? My guess is that it did. The US did not. Social Security was not a universal program to start...
I am generally in favor of a UBI plan, but I do not think it is a sufficient solution to the distribution of wealth we produce. Even if a UBI plan wer...
Yes, we should get rid of bullshit products. Now, if we can just agree on what bullshit products are! But you are overlooking the production of bullsh...
Yes, yes, yes. I agree 1000%, unanimously. And thus the need for a revolution. Ceasing the exploitation of workers is not going to happen through any ...
One must earn one's living, but that isn't the Protestant Work Ethic. The PWE says that all work is sacred, dignified, good. At the time that Martin L...
Yes. Humans have created bounded institutions to serve as rude speed bumps to reduce excessive boundless thinking, reacting, behaving, etc. One sees t...
Tiff, think! You have piles of horse shit, high heat, and dry air. Dry the horse shit out in the sun, put it bags, and sell it as raw compost to garde...
One possibility: The 8 hour day, originally fought for as a ceiling, has become a floor. Full time work is not less than an 8 hour day, whether 8 hour...
The 'modern world' of which you speak is very recent and so far of short duration. I'm 73; my father, born in 1906, grew up on a farm using horses for...
Sarcasm isn't Trump's style. He makes his point by repetition, statements he repeats; he's a repeater; he's a great repetitious unstable moron. His st...
Definitely pessimistic, hardly irrational. I'm getting old; I can afford to be honestly pessimistic -- I won't be around, most likely, too much longer...
This has been done plentifully in the scientific literature of climate change. But take this little piece as an example: A pandemic has (appropriately...
You think you have the same relationship to apes that the gods have to us? a joke... How do you make the gods laugh? Tell them your plans. If we're so...
Intellect isn't all or nothing. Even clams have enough sense to shut up and get out of town when trouble comes their way, (Octopi and squid are both i...
Well, what have you got against apes? All apes are primates. Humans are primates. Therefore, humans are apes. Something like that. Apes are a distingu...
We are smart apes, but apes, and being a smart ape is a major piece of our existential problem. There are exceptions, of course. Some humans are dumb ...
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