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@"everyone": Happy New Year, of course, 1/1/26 and all. It's still Christmastide, so Merry Christmas to you all. Cold here -- 7ºF. -14C, but then it's...
January 01, 2026 at 14:38
Good point about QR codes. They off-load various forms of labor (sign-making; menu-handling; in-person or point-of-sale information-providing, and so ...
December 30, 2025 at 22:42
Hate and love are not opposites; their opposite is indifference. Indifference is a lack of emotional / mental arousal. "I don't care" quite literally;...
December 27, 2025 at 20:12
Somebody once said that Germans tend to focus on how we are all alike; the French tend to focus on differences. I guess I am more "German" than "Frenc...
December 24, 2025 at 19:45
Hume died in 1776; he wasn't in a very good position to account for developments in physics (relativity, all that) which began around 1900.
December 14, 2025 at 20:53
You missed NOS4A2's retraction.
December 13, 2025 at 19:54
Thanks for the correction. To error is human, claiming the error as your own is divine. Sort of divine, anyway. The gods usually don't admit to error....
December 13, 2025 at 19:48
I don't feel duped at all. I do feel like The New Yorker article makes possible a deeper understanding of the way Sacks experienced and reported on th...
December 13, 2025 at 01:58
Glad to hear it! I was just referencing St. Paul.
December 12, 2025 at 03:17
I'm a agéd leftist; my experience has been that very ideologically committed leftists (Marxists) can be intolerant of other people's statements, when ...
December 11, 2025 at 20:48
says google search results... No "vocal chords" but they definitely vocalize by using: Swim Bladder: Many fish vibrate their swim bladder (an internal...
December 11, 2025 at 20:26
Where have you been? I changed my handle for you so I was hoping for bigger things. I feel neglected. Alas. We're having a traditional winter here: co...
December 08, 2025 at 07:40
Having children is in the basic animal design -- one doesn't need a manual. Raising children, on the other hand, is just very very complicated, maybe?...
December 07, 2025 at 19:23
sounds like halvah. There's a Montevideo in Minnesota. We pronounce it "monta VID ee oo". It's a sister city (supposedly) to the Uruguayan city. Why? ...
December 05, 2025 at 08:01
Yes. Men are men and women are women. Men have penises and testicles (that produce their genetically unique sperm). Men have XY chromosomes. Women hav...
November 30, 2025 at 08:27
Well, here on top there were beer joints that played that sort of music too; and I don't know of many bars, save a few here and there, where the Beer ...
November 30, 2025 at 08:13
Barrels of beer are safe and effective when used as directed. Here's a band at the Minnesota State Fair doing the deeply spiritual Beer Barrel Polka. ...
November 29, 2025 at 21:03
Medjool dates are my preferred variety -- most commonly from California. They are sold fresh for about $12 a pound. Other dates are available, especia...
November 19, 2025 at 08:08
Fear not. I will pretty much be with you till death do us part. Or, until something else happens, like bankruptcy and homelessness, having both hands ...
November 17, 2025 at 06:02
Change is the only constant. Thank you for all of your time and talent that you have generously given to the current (and future) ThePhilosophyForum.
November 16, 2025 at 18:43
That's probably it -- the cans are made from recycled nuclear reactors and have a little plutonium in them. A favorite Christmas bivalve around here a...
November 07, 2025 at 06:22
@"javi2541997". Good news! Last night I had MATIZ MUSSELS from Galicia packed in olive oil, vinegar, and some spice (?). ¡Deliciosa! I was going to ad...
November 07, 2025 at 04:48
Next year AI will introduce spell-check for cake-frosting. A Great Leap Forward!
November 02, 2025 at 21:57
Whether they are appealed to or denounced, "traditions" are not static. The warm glow of Christmas tree lights, carols on the radio, and massive comme...
November 01, 2025 at 01:04
It's a "new" attitude for me. I used to accept many aspects of transgender / transsexual rhetoric, but over the last decade and a half, I've gradually...
October 28, 2025 at 03:24
I don't agree that there are variations. There are two sexes: male (xy) and female (xx). Period. Evolution invented these two sexes about a billion ye...
October 28, 2025 at 02:17
When I think about "rights", human or legal, I find it helpful to think in terms of "actual" rather than abstract. Tonight when I went to the neighbor...
October 26, 2025 at 03:05
I am cautiously in favor of closing down AI operations for two reasons: It's not just a crutch -- it's a motorized wheelchair. Othopedists want injure...
October 20, 2025 at 22:25
Cream, or at least half and half, makes corn flakes double plus delicious.
October 18, 2025 at 19:07
I guess I wasn't up on prone and supine. Thanks for the word facts. These definitions were more familiar to me: Prone can mean "having a tendency" tow...
October 17, 2025 at 19:26
@"Copernicus" On some days, yes. The universe has good days and bad days. Some days it is benign, other days it is bitter and resentful. It can be qui...
October 14, 2025 at 23:38
I'm not sure how much difference philosophy makes to psychiatry. Doctors treat diseases, and the (apparently) the most effective treatment psychiatris...
October 14, 2025 at 04:27
To hell with it, then.
October 12, 2025 at 06:33
Even anonymous sex in the dark has meaning to the two (or more, I suppose) people sexually engaged. When one masturbates alone, it's for the benefit o...
October 12, 2025 at 06:06
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October 12, 2025 at 05:45
1) A man is a male person because they had an xy chromosome, testicles, a penis, and a prostate gland at birth. His mature reproductive sex role is to...
October 12, 2025 at 03:38
A tower of Giraffes, but what about more than one philosopher in the same place? https://64.media.tumblr.com/c5fa37d179fbc4013cc1d9b643448704/tumblr_p...
October 12, 2025 at 00:25
My thinking has changed over the years. 50 years ago, I accepted the concepts of transsexualism as a valid explanation for a profound personal dissati...
October 11, 2025 at 20:21
So, what else would it be?
October 10, 2025 at 19:21
Bicarbonate of soda is a leavening agent in some baked foods; it's also useful as a de-acidifier in some acidic foods to which one is adding milk; it ...
October 09, 2025 at 06:15
It's much more about class than race. Race and class are strongly correlated in the US. Class differences are critical, especially because a lot of Am...
October 07, 2025 at 20:03
People can and do form relationships with objects: a car, a house, a plant. It seems to be a natural habit of humans, say, early on with the little ch...
October 06, 2025 at 19:38
I like the term "simulated" as opposed to "artificial". The two terms are not very far apart, but (in my mind at least) "simulated" emphasizes 'the cr...
October 05, 2025 at 23:08
Nothing wrong with your approach if it works for you. The most complained about services in the United States are television cable companies which hav...
October 05, 2025 at 08:14
Some say the Catholic Church never changes. The Church at least doesn't change very fast, but it does change -- sometimes dragged, kicking and screami...
October 05, 2025 at 08:04
Your post doesn't speak to the phenomenon described as "enshittification". It's definitely not about nostalgia, hamsters, or Stockholm. It's about how...
October 05, 2025 at 00:23
Useful new word: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow Enshitification is a term coined by tech...
October 04, 2025 at 23:04
Yes, and I think the key to success is that the native people believe that extinguishing unhealthy (but common) behavior will pay off in the future. I...
October 04, 2025 at 01:25
It is quite difficult --maybe impossible-- for public health educators who represent the dominant white society to devise effective education programs...
October 03, 2025 at 06:31
The etymology of etymology is late Middle English: from Old French ethimologie, via Latin from Greek etumologia, from etumologos ‘student of etymology...
September 29, 2025 at 21:00