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Honestly, anonymous66, I've tried very, very hard to get off watching industry films of exploited McDonald's workers, and try as I might, I didn't get...

What we look for as signs of dementia are changes in behavior. So if you used to not get enough of watching golden retriever videos, then changing to ...

From the New York Times Saturday drama review: get your tickets... "Must I also mention “Faust 3: The Turd Coming, or The Fart of the Deal,” a satire ...

Freeze them first.

Probably more as a loss of ability. Injury or stroke may deprive someone of speech. They can't talk to old friends, but they can respond non-verbally,...

BTW, I have no idea where in my head written speech is generated. I am sitting here, fingers moving, but I am not consciously generating this content....

The ability to hear or read speech and interpret it accurately -- and vividly -- is huge. It takes time and practice to achieve it. High schools stude...

Here's a bit of verse by George Herbert which I like; it demonstrates word skill. It's quite simple English. The English speaking world had gone / wou...

Interesting questions. Great writers know what to do with words. First-rate writers don't need "great words" -- exotic, rare words that occur about on...

Rubio was so much more physically appealing than Trump. We could have had a hunk instead of a clunk.

Glad it was false.

Reasonable theory.

The perfect antidote for the sickly inability to use force!

Unauthorized camping out in parking lots, especially remote parking lots, is an outrage that insults the prophet. Firebomb the vindictive sons of bitc...

Why did your your university have this fellow run over people with his car?

I read that Corbyn has never voted for an anti-terrorism bill. True? False? If true, why?

What, hung like a pony or a horse?

alla-hooy snack tart.

Who is more likely to finally standardize clam chowder -- labor or tories?

per mongrel... Yes, "hateful heartless disease"

How many universes have you experienced? Only one? Same here. Of course it's "nicely and well put together", but not too well or not too nice for it t...

We can define and discuss the divine with precision as long as two conditions are met: First that we are defining the real gods of our own creation (w...

"The worse it gets the better it gets" is a leftist hope that never panned out. Gradual devolution is something that people get used to. Trump doesn't...

I think I was responding to the idea that "the good old days" of the late 19th century were somehow easier. They weren't. People had just as many aggr...

It's not just a matter of fixing the various causes of death. In order to live without death the body would not only have to "not die", it would also ...

Oh, come on! You know that both D and R campaigns are often decided before the convention. If there is no heir apparent, and if no prospective candida...

His was a zinger -- yours was just sour grapes.

zinger!

This is a great example of junk science. Here is an example of bad science from today's Guardian (June 6, 2017): Is white bread better for you than br...

I'm available. Did you know you could get high huffing the vapor from whipped cream cans? Haven't tried it myself. NOTE: don't inhale the whipped crea...

Well, let's go back another 25 years... Bullshit. You don't have to feed and brush the horses, refill their water trough, and shovel shit out the door...

Not entirely true. I understand that one of Mozart's patrons told him that Mass shouldn't take longer than 45 minutes, so Wolfgang wrote one to order.

No, I just told Chomsky what to say.

Ah, I see. The "Raid torch." Hold very long lighted match in-between you and your enemy, spray Raid in their direction over said lighted match, produc...

Come again?

Interesting. Back in the 1970s 3M came out with a "speech compressor". It didn't play the tapes at twice the speed, it chopped out micro-seconds bits ...

NC means "North Carolina". Maybe you mean "NK". It's not out of the question that Trump would attack North Carolina, but it seems unlikely.

Check in at 1:32:00

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is almost THREE HOURS LONG! But you're tough, you can take it. This much awarded film (backed by the...

Rubbish. But there is a range of quality in science from base to solid gold. When someone does a retrospective survey of 500 people and asks them what...

I don't have a problem with the term, science -- or philosophy either. They aren't precise terms, but they don't have to be, either. People in the "ar...

In case I forget it, happy birthday. My, you have an unappetizing problem on your hands. Brothers and sisters trying to establish the role of parent o...

Does "Philosophy" refer to anything? Is it useful? It does not refer to anything but a loose federation of people of various fields, investigating dif...

How did God find you?

When will we get over the idea that bombs have the accuracy of ace snipers? Bombs are useful weapons for killing people but they lack finesse, of nece...

I've gotten better about spiders. I haven't gotten better about Islam. A batch of churches in Minneapolis have put up signs on their lawn wishing for ...

But I don't worry about islamophobia. Arachnophobia is a bigger concern.

Will do. Pick a date. Oh sorry, I see that Thorongil already agreed to nail you up. Well, just in case you don't stay dead, I'm available to re-crucif...

True, true. I don't really like Islam either. Why should I?

I understand the idea that people are exploited and suppressed because the economy is organized as a system for exploiting and suppressing people. Thi...