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In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
You are being obtuse and I don't give a rat's ass about your degree.
November 26, 2017 at 07:10
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Get thee to a nunnery.
November 26, 2017 at 07:07
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Like I said, IN PUBLIC clothing is not strictly a private matter. It's even a legal matter. In many places it's illegal to wear nothing. It's illegal ...
November 26, 2017 at 06:30
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Quite right, women are raped in all sorts of garb. If one is at a party, the risk factors would be how much one had had to drink and who was there. If...
November 26, 2017 at 06:08
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
That's true if you stay in your house. In the privacy of your own house you can dress like the great Whore of Babylon or the Queen Mother. It doesn't ...
November 26, 2017 at 05:52
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
In both cases, at least to some extent. Be attentive to your surroundings. Men who dress to look well heeled and affluent are more likely to be target...
November 26, 2017 at 05:36
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
"Style of presentation" is important. Pretty much everyone adjusts their public presentation to suit their wishes, within their means. Back when I was...
November 26, 2017 at 05:11
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Hey, "vile, mongoloid, and sexist shitheads" why are you leaving the party so early? it's only 10:30? It's too early for you to go to bed. EDIT: Sorry...
November 26, 2017 at 04:36
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
I think Noble Dust is right. Shaming is not a good strategy. Shaming is going to be especially ineffective when it comes from an irrelevant source--so...
November 26, 2017 at 04:29
In: Most human behavior/interaction is choreographed  — view comment
American Banks (at least the ones around here) all seem to have introduced a new policy of "light conversation" during any banking transaction. Not ju...
November 25, 2017 at 23:12
In: Most human behavior/interaction is choreographed  — view comment
Odd. I associate these bullshit conversations with Australian salesmanship, such as it is. Shallow lubrication seems to be sufficient for Australians.
November 25, 2017 at 22:43
In: Most human behavior/interaction is choreographed  — view comment
Welcome to Philosophy Forum. "Bullshit" and "Asshole" are gradually entering formal English, so feel free. Well... the question is, can people be "aut...
November 25, 2017 at 22:39
In: The Facts Illustrate Why It's Wrong For 1% To Own As Much As 99%  — view comment
Many hospitals in the US have walk-in urgent care clinics. "Urgent care" is a couple of steps below emergency room care; however, since it is in the h...
November 25, 2017 at 22:26
In: Most human behavior/interaction is choreographed  — view comment
Because we are creatures of culture, and culture provides the steps of the social minuet. There are many settings where candid confessions of current ...
November 25, 2017 at 19:03
In: The Facts Illustrate Why It's Wrong For 1% To Own As Much As 99%  — view comment
I don't expect that my design for a utopian economy in a utopian society will ever exist, not even remotely, because the conditions required to establ...
November 25, 2017 at 18:30
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
As late as mid-20th century "mongoloid" also referred to a class of idiot -- mongoloid idiot, now termed "downs syndrome".
November 25, 2017 at 04:34
In: The Facts Illustrate Why It's Wrong For 1% To Own As Much As 99%  — view comment
They are sick?
November 24, 2017 at 23:56
In: The Facts Illustrate Why It's Wrong For 1% To Own As Much As 99%  — view comment
Relax. It's merely an exercise to annoy Agustino who still believes in natalism.
November 24, 2017 at 23:43
In: The Facts Illustrate Why It's Wrong For 1% To Own As Much As 99%  — view comment
A worker-run socialist economy would not be a "command" economy like the USSR, or a "demand" economy like the typical capitalist economy. It would be ...
November 24, 2017 at 23:32
In: The Facts Illustrate Why It's Wrong For 1% To Own As Much As 99%  — view comment
Workers on an assembly line generally get paid without respect to the value of the part they are adding. They are all doing essentially the same task....
November 24, 2017 at 20:44
In: Is the workplace PRIMARILY a place for self-fulfillment or a harmful evil (maybe necessary)?  — view comment
I totally agree that consumption, per se, does not -- can not -- make us happier, or make life more meaningful. Adding stuff to one's collection of st...
November 24, 2017 at 06:40
In: Is the workplace PRIMARILY a place for self-fulfillment or a harmful evil (maybe necessary)?  — view comment
It could very well be that their role in life, per the needs of capitalists, is to be a low paid worker and be a consumer. To what extent any of us es...
November 24, 2017 at 06:32
In: Is the workplace PRIMARILY a place for self-fulfillment or a harmful evil (maybe necessary)?  — view comment
You probably should not take that literally. It's advertising talk; "WE advertisers know people better than they know themselves." Advertisers are in ...
November 24, 2017 at 06:14
In: The Facts Illustrate Why It's Wrong For 1% To Own As Much As 99%  — view comment
You have apparently not heard of the working poor in the United States. A "living wage" is reckoned to be... around $16 per hour. $16 was cited 17 yea...
November 23, 2017 at 23:47
In: The Facts Illustrate Why It's Wrong For 1% To Own As Much As 99%  — view comment
How much would workers get if they owned the factory and profit wasn't an issue. It might work out something like this: A factory employing 500 worker...
November 23, 2017 at 23:29
In: The Facts Illustrate Why It's Wrong For 1% To Own As Much As 99%  — view comment
Thank you.
November 23, 2017 at 22:09
In: Is the workplace PRIMARILY a place for self-fulfillment or a harmful evil (maybe necessary)?  — view comment
Because aggressive narcissism is one of the things that makes people both unpleasant and successful in hierarchies. The A-type personality. Excessive ...
November 23, 2017 at 18:35
In: Sometimes, girls, work banter really is just harmless fun — and it’s all about common sense  — view comment
Can a good joke not be at least somewhat harmful to someone? The majority of jokes have a little kernel of honest cruelty in them. Jokes about the Eng...
November 23, 2017 at 18:21
In: Ideal Reality: How Should Things Be?  — view comment
What seems to make a utopia is convergence by everyone on what is good for people. Take Star Trek for example. Particularly in The Second Generation, ...
November 23, 2017 at 17:46
In: Thankfulness  — view comment
I figured someone would start a thanks giving thread today. Yes, that's the heart of it. As for the organizations that look after the poor in the worl...
November 23, 2017 at 17:27
In: Machines should take over 90% of jobs and money should not exist  — view comment
Pretty much agree. One "alternative" to violent revolution is devolution and/or collapse. I don't have any idea about what the timeline might be for e...
November 23, 2017 at 17:05
In: Ideal Reality: How Should Things Be?  — view comment
No, you didn't cross the line in any way. As you said, this was kind of thrown together. The thing is, designing Utopia is tricky business. For instan...
November 23, 2017 at 04:46
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
You don't like birds? (This is a blue jay -- a member of the fine Corvidae family of squawking, smart birds -- crows, ravens, magpies...) Bright red m...
November 23, 2017 at 00:49
In: Is intelligent life in the universe a mistake?  — view comment
It is myopic to view the planet's last 5k years as a disaster. Over the last 4 billion years, the planet has been made, and destructively made over se...
November 23, 2017 at 00:37
In: Machines should take over 90% of jobs and money should not exist  — view comment
With this I agree whole heartedly. I don't know how we can step off this merry-go-round of extraction, production, consumption, waste, and more extrac...
November 22, 2017 at 23:13
In: Machines should take over 90% of jobs and money should not exist  — view comment
I lean pretty far left (as a socialist). I don't expect capitalists to play a leading role in developing a better world. What you have described is a ...
November 22, 2017 at 19:14
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Fuck no. Why would we want to do that?
November 22, 2017 at 18:50
In: Machines should take over 90% of jobs and money should not exist  — view comment
I don't think that is actually the case--at least much less so than in the past. The major oil companies understand that there is an end to oil that c...
November 22, 2017 at 15:52
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
He's self employed and can't afford new sneakers. Note that the dog has a new chew toy, however, and big teeth, the better to bite Agustino with.
November 22, 2017 at 15:39
In: Is the workplace PRIMARILY a place for self-fulfillment or a harmful evil (maybe necessary)?  — view comment
You are right to extend your criticism of the workplace to include communist/soviet and fascist societies and their work places, because hierarchies, ...
November 22, 2017 at 15:31
In: Machines should take over 90% of jobs and money should not exist  — view comment
A medium of exchange might be obsolete, IF there was enough of everything for everyone, OR IF all goods were extremely scarce. In the first instance, ...
November 22, 2017 at 13:48
In: Machines should take over 90% of jobs and money should not exist  — view comment
No. Granted, many jobs positively create nihilistic voids, but many people find some jobs enjoyable. They like the tasks involved in the job. (It does...
November 22, 2017 at 01:19
In: Machines should take over 90% of jobs and money should not exist  — view comment
Robotic production isn't the norm yet, but a lot of production work in factories and offices is now done by computers and computer-operated machines (...
November 22, 2017 at 00:38
In: Machines should take over 90% of jobs and money should not exist  — view comment
If that were the case, the money supply could be reduced, solving the problem. Too much money in circulation chasing too few goods causes inflation. M...
November 22, 2017 at 00:32
In: Ideal Reality: How Should Things Be?  — view comment
Vote NO on MoutainDwarf Utopia. You have all these grand ideas, but when it gets down to details, you're going to set the minimum wage at $12/hr??? Wh...
November 21, 2017 at 05:49
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
She really was. Seinfeld had a lot of good lines and really super delivery. George was the ordinary deluded guy. Kramer was reliably off the wall -- g...
November 21, 2017 at 05:33
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Why can't a woman act like a man? G. B. Shaw via Alan Jay Lerner. Also, you know Seinfeld wasn't a documentary. (Though for silliness, there's nothing...
November 21, 2017 at 05:19
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
It's also a better life. That's why orthodox Jewish men say that prayer thanking God they weren't born as women. Of course, if a Jewish man had been b...
November 21, 2017 at 05:16
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Indeed. Here's a book review you might like: Howard Schwartz reviews The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and The Growth o...
November 21, 2017 at 05:11
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Ah ha -- Rama has arrived. Time to launch the rendezvous crew. (As reported in today's Guardian and explained by Arthur Clark): https://78.media.tumbl...
November 21, 2017 at 05:02
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