Really? Javi married? I can't recall any regular PhilosoForumite getting married. Apparently hanging around a herd of philosophers discourages amorous...
We aren't "ruled by the financial aristocracy"; we are ruled (so far) by civilian government. But as Marx said "The government is a committee for arra...
It's less 'have given up' and much more "they've been defeated'. It is extremely difficult to overcome the legal barriers erected against unionization...
We are expecting cooler weather then heat - it's 0ºF now with an expected pleasant, cool, refreshing low this evening of -12ºF, and a scorching high t...
You can also turn off "location service" or whatever it's called on your phone. This will interfere with apps which want to know where you are so that...
In the '60s, as Frank Zappa had The Mothers of Invention say... So it has happened here. ICE agents are using some advanced electronic tools, one that...
According to various officials, Federal officers have cooperated with state police investigations numerous times. So, at least there is some precedenc...
Cool, but not life-threatening -- unless you were out bicycling in 4º rain and dressed for warm weather. I hate getting wet when I'm on a bike, even i...
Life-long Minnesotans (and North Dakotans, Manitobans, UPers, Wisconsinites) expect it to be cold in the winter, and sometimes very very cold. We've a...
It's -8 in Minneapolis, a little before noon. It could be worse. ICE killed another person in Minneapolis this morning. https://arc.stimg.co/startribu...
Sticking with the OP topic of Technology and the future of Humanity... Marx thought that the working class would acquire and use the technology of the...
One of the great fears that haunt me is that ecological disaster will overtake technological and economic predictions and render them irrelevant. A he...
That's why I support "industrial democracy" and socialism. I'm not optimistic about the working class (90% of the population) self-organizing in the n...
Right, the 9 Nations of North America -- one of which is Cascadia. Another nation is the morally upright Yankeedom, which extends in a gerrymandered s...
We Minnesotans are fond of our map's shape so we would regret losing Lake of the Woods. In the bigger picture, though, the southern 70 miles of Vancou...
So, hacer means 'do' in English, so deshacer is literally, 'undo'. There is a "deshacer" command on the computer. Didn't want to delete that paragraph...
Is this true? Maybe not. We already do hand out billions of dollars to people, actually. Welfare payments, social security, retirement (especially fro...
To 'rid' yourself of something is to get free of it or to clear it away. Bed-ridden, 'bedrad' in Middle English, is the past-participle of "to ride", ...
Thank you! If Hennepin County would give me a break for paying my property taxes promptly, I would be first in line to pay at 12:00:01 a.m. on May 15,...
CRIME DOES NOT PAY!!! Fortunately for us, over-staying a parking place is not a capitol offense, unless it's in Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, or Washingto...
Hanover got the recipe from a flin-flan man. Rather like flan, or more like a pudding. (is flan a pudding?). Almond "flour", eggs, and yogurt will not...
Right. "The only war is the class war" is probably incomprehensible now. Instead of the middle class constituting maybe 10% of the population, its mem...
For sarcasm I want to say it's been a lot longer than 50 years, but never mind that. What would "progress in the arts" look or sound like? Same for ph...
No. I was joking about space porn (AI will do the trick) but not about pregnancy. We animals won't be going on multi-generational travels in anything ...
Sex in space absolutely needs to be explored for strictly pornographic purposes. Pregnancy in space we can do without. Yes, we have proved that we can...
If a meteor needs to be deflected from a collision trajectory, a robotic mission will probably be faster, cheaper, and better than sending out some gu...
A "good reason" for manned spaceflight is that a given scientific enquiry can not be performed by remote equipment. For instance... Robotic equipment ...
I just bought McPhee's book; thanks much for the recommendation. Geology was a favorite course in college, not so much because of the rock but because...
As Kant said, "Nothing straight was ever built with the crooked timber of mankind". so combine the crooked timber with devious AI -- well, nothing goo...
It's been a very long time since I read Milton; I just plugged 1 stanza into Google Search and copied/pasted what it spit out. I was surprised by what...
Our comedy club is altogether just silly. The jokes and the puns are both quite out of hand; So please criticize what you'd dump in the sand. For the ...
AI Overview The verse provided is from the poem "Paradise is not Lost", attributed to an author using the pseudonym Ecurb (which appears to be "Bruce"...
I have a non-socialist, non-leftist, non-progressive view: Sovereign states are obligated to control their borders. First, for the protection and secu...
I'm not going to defend the brutality of the USSR or China. But it is true that the Soviet regime did improve the lot of working people in the Soviet ...
Quite right. As an old-fashioned socialist, it's clear to me that "the left" lost its way when it turned from class (working class, ruling class confl...
I thought your exegesis of the American Right was worth reading, even though it is a much longer post than I usually engage with. It's well composed. ...
Maybe I should go back to "Bitter Crank" rather than the abbreviated BC. I changed it to soothe Noble Dust who found the original name disturbing, for...
Blake is great, of course, but we have to give credit to Hubert Perry who composed the music which turned the poem as a favorite hymn in 1916 during W...
Recall the pillow from the dream, then free-associate to it. Tell us what pops into your head. Successful therapy requires that you be completely hone...
Are you more interested in the absence of Kenya, the US, or Mongolia in the Bible, or Nietzsche's denial of facts? Seems like the latter, since there ...
Here's another retro-edit placing a non-biblical country into the biblical narrative. You have mentioned this, but for others... Jerusalem source: Wil...
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